Research On The Development Of Small Cities In Yangtze River Economic Zone Of Hubei Province

After the development of big cities, small cities will play an important role in economic growth and development in the future. As the main force of China’s urbanization, China’s small cities will play a supportive role in absorbing China’s rural population and in Chinese social transformation. The study on China’s small cities development path and development strategy can make more accurately China’s future urbanization space deployment and development plan.Applying both empirical and theoretical analysis method, on the basis of field survey and literature reading and combined with international and domestic small cities development history and present situation, this paper analyzes theoretically spatial distribution, economic development, social development, construction of ecological civilization of small cities in the Yangtze River Economic Zone of Hubei Province, and puts forward corresponding countermeasures. A basic understanding can be got from the research on the present situation of development of small and medium-sized cities in the zone that Wuhan is the most developed city while the prefecture-level cities are as better as those in the surrounding provinces, but the small cities are less developed than the surrounding ones, that is, Hubei city pattern is the reversed pyramid pattern. Conclusion can be drawn from the research that the zone should speed up the development of medium-sized and small cities, especially the development of small cities and their economic radiant towns.The focus of this article is from the forth chapter to the seventh, discussing spatial distribution, the strategy of economic development, social development strategy, and the construction of ecological civilization of the Yangtze River Economic Zone of Hubei Province. In regard to spatial distribution, considering the practical situation, small city should base on practical situations of local geographical environment, the resources endowment, industrial foundation and human resources, take industry development direction and the town system into consideration comprehensively and make the two merge together so that town network could be formed orderly and all kinds of industry develop coordinately. City zone in healthy and orderly development could be formed on the condition that the spatial distribution of the small cities is handled macroscopically. The strategy of developing section by section should be taken in the development distribution of the whole zone. Eastern part of the zone emphasizes on Wuhan’s leading role in the whole zone, especially among Ezhou, Huanggang, Huangshi, and Xianning; Western part highlights the radiating capacity of Yichang, the provincial sub-central city, among surrounding small and medium-sized cities; The central part implement the "strong waist project" in order to solve Hubei province’s "central-sunken" problem. Main road is the artery of industrial and urban development. It is imperative to increase input in main road to construct water-air-highway-railway integrated transportation system, making the zone interact integrally. Under the guidance of three principles, that is, livelihood of the people first, safety first and green-high quality, small cities should strengthen infrastructure construction to meet the requirements of normalization and standardization of urban public facilities. Spatial distribution of urban architecture should be integrated into the nature continue urban historical context, make people’s life comfortable and happy, and make people enjoy it. In regard to economic development strategy, the optimization of industrial structure should be focused on. By Analyzing the three industrial structures, we can learn that the proportion of primary industry of the small citied is on the high side, while the proportion of primary industry is on the low side. The development countermeasures lie in three aspects. In the aspect of agriculture, it is to develop agriculture through science and technology, promote industrial management, and promote industrial upgrading through brand marketing; In the aspect of industry, it is to cultivate leading industries, expand industrial extension capacity, and create brand-name products; In the aspect of services, it is to fully meet the needs of the society and develop scientific and technological service industry. The small cities’dependency on foreign trade is weak. The improvement measure is to develop competitive advantages, expand trade mode, and promote market diversification. In order to adhere to deepen the economic system reform which takes property right as center, three aspects of measures should be considered. In financial system, it is to improve financial service system by market-oriented means, and establish investment and financing system of diversified financial services; In management system, it is to establish the principles of separating government functions from enterprise management and improve the management efficiency; in urban areas and rural land system, it is to adjust the system taking property rights as center. The transfer of rural land will bring more funds and employment opportunities for farmers’settlement in town.Social development strategy emphasizes on the "people-oriented idea" and "urbanization of people". In regard to population agglomeration, small cities should ease its restrictions on household registration as soon as possible, making the population urbanization keep up with the pace of the land urbanization; set up the employment service system, and improve the employment rate in cities and towns by adjusting the urban distribution; play the government’s role in macroscopic guidance and cultivate rich human resources. In the aspect of social services, the key is to solve the problems existing in social security, education and medical system, making everyone share legitimate rights and interests of citizens fairly.Small cities in the zone have made some progress in the construction of ecological civilization. The focus of the work in the future is to promote the green transformation of economic development mode, to establish comprehensive and effective pollution control system, to improve the ecological compensation mechanism of environmental protection and to take the path of urbanization of green development, cyclic development, and low carbon development. The large amount of human resources in the small cities should be maintained and exploited with the concept of ecological civilization. The measures are to get city spirit from the humanistic resources, exploit tourism resources, activate the local industry and products, and create spiritual homeland. We could obtain the sustainable development of economy and society through the maintenance and exploitation of natural environment and human resources and return blue sky white clouds, green hills and blue waters to common people.