“ Sustainable human settlements in an urbanizing world" is one of the two themes of the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (also known as Habitat Ⅱ) held in Istanbul , Turkey , in June 1996. While the environment of human settlements in mountain areas takes an important part of the whole human settlements , the significance of the theme of Habitat Ⅱis particularly extraordinary to such a large country as China , whose territory is mostly covered by mountains , whose population is dense and whose cultivated land is comparatively rare , The area of China’ s mountainous region takes about two thirds of the country’ s whole land area * ,with hilly cities and towns counting to about half of the country’ s total number of that. The population of China’ s minority nationalities ,mineral resources , hydroenergy , and biological resources are chiefly in mountain areas. In China , mountains also form a huge treasury of cultural and biological variety and species including those on the verge of extinction ; they are sources of rivers and shields for plains and ,therefore , their ecololgical state directly relates to the safety of rivers’ lower reaches and plains. Since mountainous cities and towns are the centers of the social and economical administration and they are mostly populated centers of minority nationalities , how well they are planned and constructed has immediate influence on the social and economical development of mountain areas and even the whole country. However , the specific natural and ecological conditions , the unique cultural background , and the economic growth level of these cities and towns tell decisively that in mountainous environment the development or evolution of human settlements must follow its own law, while the planning and construction of them must have their own particularity and complexity , which , up until now,has not been commonly realized or paid adequate attention to.
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