Also Kantar estimates that in November 2012 Apple had a 19% market share in Urban China.
However, as incomes in urban China have increased multifold, many people can afford goods and services previously unavailable to them.
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Kantar, a London based research firm, estimates that iOS has a 19% market share in urban China with Android having a 72% share.
It has been publishing survey results in Urban China since at least September last year, Europe for multiple years and Japan since December last year.
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The Credit Suisse report indicates that wages in urban China will increase 19% annually from 2011 through 2015, and private consumption may climb to 42% of GDP in 2015, up from the current 36%.
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In a few years' time, this could mean that in urban China at least, the party's grassroots activities will be confined mainly to government departments and institutions, in which party membership remains a prerequisite for advancement.
The Credit Suisse report indicates that wages in urban China will increase 19 percent annually from 2011 through 2015, and private consumption may climb to 42 percent of GDP in 2015, up from the current 36 percent.
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In 1970, around 20% of the population lived in urban centers around China.
We use a field-tested methodology with our clients that is supported by a proprietary analytic model for forecasting population and income distribution annually through 2020 in urban and rural China.
State firms most of them unprofitable still employ about two-thirds of all urban workers in China.
Still, the same poll, which had a disproportionately urban sample in China, highlights the extent to which many Chinese are struggling to cope with the side effects of economic growth.
In 2010, 34% of rural migrant workers left their factory jobs to move back home, according to the most recent data available from the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia project at Australian National University.
Zoning in China's urban areas was traditionally weak and even today housing blocks stand next to factories.
This is what we have been seeing in China today, as urban per capita income far exceeds rural incomes.
While particulate matter emitted by vehicles make up a small part of overall particulate matter in China, in dense urban areas, it is almost certainly the highest contributor to human exposure of PM2.5, according to Vance Wagner, a senior researcher at the International Council on Clean Transportation.
Moreover, in 2008, a nearly trillion yuan stimulus program had developers building up China residential properties in hopes that the urban trend would spike.
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Just like elsewhere in rural China, younger people prefer to seek a more prosperous life in the urban fast-lane.
That's not far or fast, but it's enough to make the EN-V useful for cutting down congestion in urban settings, particularly high-density cities in China and India, Borroni-Bird said.
In China, nearly 25% of Chinese respondents in urban areas own one, nearly three times the global average.
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Another indication of slum politics comes from recent developments in China where there is a growing movement among the urban migrant workers.
The environmental costs levied on China's 400 million urban residents pale in comparison, however, to those faced by the country's more than 800 million farmers and other rural residents.
The thrust of China's strategy will remain boosting urban development in the hope that this will create job opportunities for rural migrants and prevent unrest among city dwellers.
The Washington Post cites Nicholas Lardy, a respected China-watcher at the Peterson Institute, as saying that urban housing stock accounts for 41% of household wealth in China, compared to 26% in the U.S., though mortgage lending is much more restrictive in China.
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Communist China, with two-thirds of its urban work force employed in state-owned industries, is anything but a free market.
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Fears of a property bubble that, if it burst, could create urban China's first widespread experience of negative equity prompted the authorities in Shanghai last week to announce a 5.5% capital-gains tax on the sale of property held for less than a year.
Spreading from its agricultural origins to Korean people of all walks of life in both urban and rural areas, the dance has evolved considerably since it was brought to China at the end of the nineteenth century.
In the past decade, China made improvements to the daily conditions of 65.3 million urban residents without shelter, while India lifted 59.7 million citizens out of poor housing.
The size of the country's informal-lending market isn't clear, but economists say it plays a major role in bringing needed funds to small and midsize businesses, which account for roughly 80% of China's urban employment.
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