A Historical Overview of China’s Learning City Construction: Since the 1990’s

Abstract

Learning city is an indigenous concept in China, which refers to a development approach that centres on people’s development in order to improve civilization, build learning culture, and enhance a city’s comprehensiveness. This paper aims to demonstrate the historical processes and stages of China’s learning city construction, as well as its basic features and development patterns. This construction has three stages: preparation stage, exploration stage and development stage. Its basic characteristics are analysed from the perspectives of operating mechanism, promoting strategies, key construction, and protection measures. The development of learning city depends on the level of economic knowledge and vitality of the city. At the same time, the development of learning city is limited by the development of modern city and geographical conditions.

Keywords

• learning city
• stage
• basic features