| As the center of the regional development, cities play a more and more important role in the national economy and social development. The level of urbanization is positively and highly related to the level of economic development in one country and region. Therefore many developing countries take the promotion of urbanization as an important policy to develop their own economy. China is carrying out active urbanization policy in order to realize the great goal of relatively-comfortable society and the radical changes from villages to cities, agriculture society to industrial society. The urbanization of China couldn' t succeed without the urbanization in the vast ethnic regions. For various reasons, the urbanization level of minority nationality regions obviously lags behind the average urbanization level in China which is not very high, especially the Sichuan Tibetan Regions in West China. Under such background, how to promote the urbanization process in the Sichuan Tibetan Regions with the area of 250 thousand square kilometers is a good question with deep-research value.The urbanization process consists of scale of quantity ana efficiency of quality. The scale of quantity refers to the increase in the number of cities and towns and the urban population; the efficiency of quality refers to the perfection of urban functions, the reinforcementof urban radiation abilities, the improvement of urban life and the changes of people' s life and work. From the point of both the scales of quantity and the efficiency of quality, the urbanization process will inevitably exert a profound influence on the culture of a country or region and lead to a rapid change on the traditional social economy and culture. All the under-developed countries and regions in the world are encountering the strong impact in the rapid urbanization process and facing severe challenges caused by the sharp changes of the times. Urbanization process and its deep related social and culture changes have been worldwide regarded as one of the most challenging problems full of the sense of times.As a typical case of the Tibetan areas in Sichuan in the modernization and urbanization process, Gengqing town in Dege County, Ganzi Prefecture where the county government lies, is selected ?.s the object of study in this dissertation. On the one hand, the changes in terms of material in Gengqing town brought about by modernization and urbanization is quite obvious, such as early and late established public economy and private industries and commerce, introduction of modern urban management model, road transportation, telecommunication and Internet, popularity of modern entertainment, flourishing trade and peaceful cohabited style and frequent association between Tibetan and Han people. On the other hand, the lagging behind of urbanization and the traditional culture influence are also shown completely and thoroughly, such as no modern industry economically, payment financed fiscally, sharp gap between the rich and poor, dual structure between urban and rural areas and profound influence in the aspect of religion, etiquette and thought of daily life. Besides, culture collision and integration can also be obviously displayed here.The research structure of this dissertation can be divided into six parts. First, I draw a clear conclusion that Sichuan Tibetan Regions lags behind by revealing various restrictions resulted from the underdevelopment of urbanization after investigating urbanizationprocess of Sichuan Tibetan Regions, summarizing it' s features and analyzing it' s motivation and the check factors. Second, I study the culture changes in the urbanization process. From the angle of the concept of culture and its function, this dissertation analyses the culture changes and it' s features caused by modernization and urbanization, especially the role played by the cities and towns as the regional center of politics, economy and culture in the changes ofculture. The case, Gengqing town, is studied in chapter 3--chapter 5in this disserta...
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