Abstract
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014–2020) put forward the novel principle of “people-oriented” policy. Has the Chinese government’s plan achieved the expected results? To answer this question, the present study evaluates the impacts of New-type Urbanization on the subjective well-being (SWB) of residents. Based on the IV Ordered Probit Model and the data of Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), we determined that (1) living in cities has a positive impact on SWB, and this impact is significant at a statistical level of 1%; (2) urban household registration (hukou) has no significant impact on SWB; and (3) “Gender”, “Income”, “Job”, “Politics”, “Education”, “Marriage”, and “Health” have significant effects on SWB. To improve residents’ SWB, the government should enhance the attractiveness of the city and significantly reform the household registration system.
Highlights
Building sustainable cities and human communities is an important goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and a global issue that the Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) conference is seeking to respond to
We propose three questions: (1) Is it easier to feel happy living in a city? (2) Does urban household registration help to enhance subjective well-being (SWB)? (3) Are there any other factors that have significant impacts on SWB? To answer these questions, this paper uses the IV Ordered Probit Model to analyze China Comprehensive Social Survey (CGSS) data and related statistical data and provide new policy suggestions
Living in cities has a positive impact on SWB
Summary
Building sustainable cities and human communities is an important goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and a global issue that the Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) conference is seeking to respond to. China has experienced the largest and fastest urbanization process in world history [2]. With increasingly more city settlers, the urbanization rate of China’s permanent population has exceeded 60% [3]. This phenomenon has triggered concern for the carrying capacity of cities. China’s traditional type of urbanization has created many problems [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]
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