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Population Geographies in China: Future Directions of Travel

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This editorial introduction explores some vibrant trajectories of population geography research in China that are central to this virtual special issue of Population, Space and Place entitled Population Geographies in China: Future directions of travel. stressing the important issues of: Specifically, we focus on five key important areas of increasing societal and academic concern in contemporary China: the (re)settlement of older populations; education resource inequalities and student mobilities; employment-population changes and regional development; changing housing and fertility intentions, and; the impacts of gentrification and population displacement. Finally, the major underlying academic contributions of the special issue are emphasised to highlight some possible trajectories for future population geography research in China.

Source: Population Space and Place

DOI: 10.1002/psp.70014

Authors: Hengyu Gu, Hengyu Gu, Darren Smith, Hao Gu, Hao Gu, Tiyan Shen

Institutions: Hunan University, Nanjing University, Loughborough University, Peking University

Language: English

Topic: China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China