Despite the consensus that urbanization is the inevitable path for China to further its progress toward a stronger and more prosperous nation, a roadmap is yet to be drawn up to ensure it is a healthy process conducive to sustainable development.

Premier Li Keqiang said that urbanization is a complicated process and different opinions must be solicited for the drawing up of a desirable plan after he listened to the opinions of academicians from the academies of sciences and engineering recently who had conducted surveys and research on the issue in the past year.

The process should not just be the expansion of small cities into big ones and big ones into mega ones. Neither should it be a process just to build urban homes for villagers turned workers and turn arable fields into land for construction purposes.