Editor's note: China Daily interviewed Chi Fulin, president of the China Institute for Reform and Development in Hainan province, on the challenges facing the country's urbanization.

Is urbanization a natural process or a government-led initiative?

Moving nearly 300 million people - equal to the total population of the United States - into cities by 2030 is an unprecedented challenge. China's approach, which it has used to tackle every problem it has encountered during reform and opening-up, is always to experiment first.