With the onset of industrialization over the past several decades,the traditional Chinese countryside has been gradually replacedby multi-storey residential blocks and scattered factory buildings.This process is defined as peri-urbanization. A United Nations study(2000) shows that 477 million people will be added to East Asiancities by 2025, of which approximately 350 million will be in Chi-nese cities. Up to 40 percent or 200 million of this growth will occurin transitional peri-urban zones. If this occurs in China, approx-imately 140 million people will be added to Chinese peri-urbanareas (Webster & Muller, 2002).