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China's Industrialization And Urbanization Coordination Of Development Theory

Posted on:2003-03-09Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:W F ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360065962041Subject:Industrial Economics
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Industrialization and urbanization are tWo most imPortan powers pushing economicdeveloPmam and modeAnzation forward. They are also tWo importat respects ofeconondc development and modendzation. By now China have already realized tWotargets of its Three Stage Developmed Plan. By the middle of the new cedry Chinawill have finished its tWo most importam trallsformations .One is to switch thetraditional agricultIJral society into an industrialized one, the other is to switch thetraditional rura1 society illto an urbhazed one. So it is very urgent to implore the reallinkage betWeen industrialization and urbanization and gives some advice for China toavoid both the phenomenon "industrialization wtthout Urbanization"or" urbanizationwithout industrialization" in its developmeni process. Considering the above reasons,this dissedation analyzes and compares the existed theories on industrialization andurbhazation both in developmental economics and Chna's socia1ist economcs .Then,the author analyzes the mehong of the himonious developmen betweenindustria1ization and Urbanization,its fimdaxnental requretnents and standards andexplores the experiences of China's industrialization and urbanization process, andgive some advce for China to himonize industria1ization with urbanzation in thenew celltury .ms dissertation is composed of six chaPters.In chaPter one, the aUthor introduces and evaluates the most important theories abolltindustrialization and Urbanization in the mainstream develoPmental literatUre. Thesetheories read as the Lewis tWo sector model, the Ranis-fe i model, the Jorgsen modeland the Todaro model. In the Lewis tWo sector model, it is SUPposed that there existtWo sectors, one is low-productivity traditiona1 foring, which relied on unpaidfamily labor for subsistence production, the other is the small, urban-centeredcaPitalistimodam seCtor. According to Lewis, in the process of econondc development,the urban-crmered modem seCtor will accumlate caPita and provide ernp1oymentchoice for the transference of surplus 1abor, so it is the engine of economic groed,Whereas the traditional sector is only a negative seCtor Whose orily role is provide thelabor force for the modrm sector. Therefore, if the modem sectOr is designated as the'leading' sector or the 'growh' pole, then it can transfer the mplus labor oni of thetraditional sector and the economy wil1 be modendzed in the end. The Lewis modelaspired tO lead laborsurplus, caPital-short economes of the developmenal cotmtriesollt of the poverty traP. However it is based on anti-rural and questionable preIniseschiefly resulting frOm a presumed 'irrationality' in the traditional sector. Thus, theassumption of zero or negative marginal productivity of agricultUral labor was provedimproperly, and the ways of treating this sector only as a ''block box" Which existsmerely to provide ''uulimited suPplies of labor "to the modem sector. ComPared withthe Lewis model, the Rbos-fe model and the Jorgen model give the agricultUralsector a more aCtive role in the economic development process, and they also admitthe value of aghcutuTal developmen as imPortam respects of econothec development.The Todaro model of nJral-urban migration focuses on the wage differenal betweenthe villages and cities, which pul1s rural workers to the city According to Todaro, themigraion from rural sector to city sector dePends Qn priInarily on a compedson ofwages in the -rural and the urban market. That is,M,=f(W-WJ. Where M, is thenumber of naal to urban migrans in the hme period t, f is a response function,W isthe UIban wage, and W is the rural wage. Since there is unemPloyInent in the townand every migrant cannt expect to And a job there, the model postulates that theexPected differenal between urban and rural wage decides the migration action .Ifand only if the exPected urban wage mpasses the rural wage, workers from ruralareas to urban areas cannot stOp. In this...
Keywords/Search Tags:Industrialization, Urbanization, The performance of industrialization and urbanization, Harmonious development
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