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出处: International Journal of Social Economics
作者: De Wang
Socioeconomic characteristics of rural urbanization in Southern Jiangsu, China
De Wang
Abstract Rural urbanization in China has been discussed by many scholars since the 1980s. In this paper, Wuxi and Jiangyin, two counties in China’s most developed area of southern Jiangsu, were selected as target areas. Four characteristics of rural urbanization, namely, multilevel transfer of rural population into urban population; dispersed spatial pattern; urbanization lagging behind industrial development; and important role of towns in rural urbanization, were analyzed.
Through an analysis of the socioeconomic development of Wuxi and Jiangyin, three trends in future development of rural urbanization can be predicted: rural population will continue to progress from lower to higher level and from plete plete form; small towns will continue to develop rapidly and differentially; and rural migrants in regional cities will gradually increase.
Keywords China Rural economy Urban economy
1 Introduction
Rural urbanization in China has been discussed hotly by many scholars after the 1980s. William (1990) has reviewed most studies dealing with the broader subject of rural urbanization including rural industry. The main full-length works that emerged from this period were Chang (1990), Griffin (1984), Yao and Wu (1988) and Yeh (1995). Despite the considerable volume of past and ongoing research on rural urbanization, until recently few studies had concentrated specifically on the micro scale rural urbanization process.

The process of rural urbanization can be generally understood as the transformation of a rural area into an urban one. Its main idea is transferring the population’s status from a rural into an urban one. The motive power of urbanization can be divided into two types: es from cities, or rather, from the diffusion of urban industry to outside areas and the construction of state-owned enterpr