Describing Urban Evolution with the Fractal Parameters Based on Area-Perimeter Allometry

Table 6

Important historical events associated with urban evolution of China.

Chance/change	Time	Mark/event	Consequence
Chinese economic reform and open-up	1978-12-18; 1978-12-22	Chinese eleventh CPC Central Committee Third Plenary Session	Close economic systems change to open systems
The socialist market economic system	1992-1-18; 1992-2-21	Deng’s South Tour Speeches	Self-organized economics appears
Further economic reform and open-up	2001-12-11	Joining World Trade Organization (WTO)	Introduced international rules into open economic systems