2010 IACP Best Student Paper Award

Zhu Kai, a student at Southeastern University in Nanjing received this year’s IACP best student paper award ($ 600 U.S.) at the Fourth Annual IACP conference in Shanghai for his paper titled “An Analysis on Basic Public Service Equalization with the View of Utility-oriented Urban and Rural Residents—the Case of Nanjing City”.

Working under the direction of professor Wang Xing-ping, Zhu described differences in the propensity to consume and the gap in consumer expenditures in health care, education, transportation, and other public services between rural residents and city dwellers in Nanjing and analyzed alternative governmental approaches to service equalization either by increasing rural residents’ consumption capacity to consume public goods through subsidies or increasing the supply of public services accessible to them.
Seven papers related to student research on urban planning, design, economics, historic preservation and other issues were submitted in the 2010 IACP best student paper competition. The papers were evaluated by a review committee appointed by the conference organizing committee consisting of four members of the IACP board: Richard LeGates, chair, Jiawen Yang, Xueming Chen, and Jianling Li.

The IACP best Student Paper Competition annually provides an award to a student in China who presents the best paper at the IACP annual conference in China. To be eligible for the award, the student must be a current student in a university in China and either the sole author or the lead author of a paper presented at the annual IACP conference in China.