Optimize The Regional Market Network Promote The Urbanization Process

As the main trend of the present world, the urbanization level is an important sign for measuring the standard of economic development in a region or a whole country. Since the reform and opening-up of China, the Chinese urbanization process has attracted attention from various disciplines. Different scholars have probed into this subject from different angles and generated lots of constructive results on the urbanization operating mechanism. However, urbanization is a quite complex interactive process between society, economy, and space. Under the special background of this era, some outstanding changes have taken place and exerted distinct and latent influence on the Chinese urbanization. A new kind of urbanization mechanism differing from the traditional one is, therefore, formed.The article analyzes the important role played by regional market network, as the fundamental network in regional economy, in urbanization process. According to the author, the optimization of regional market network is a significant momentum for the urbanization process: the centralization and spread of the resources in regional market network realize the rearrangement of resources essential for urbanization; the development of trade and labor division in regional market network spurs on the choice of dominating7industries and industrialization indispensable in urbanization; the adjustment of infrastructure in regional market network facilitate the construction of infrastructure for urbanization; and the optimization of regional market network accelerates the population gathering and shift of ideas necessary for urbanization. This article also verifies the significance of this operating mechanism by analyzing the effect of marketization on urbanization from 1978 to 1999 in China, and particularly the local experience of the promotion of urbanization in Zhejiang province through its market network optimization. On the basis of the above analysis, some countermeasures for optimizing regional market network and thus furthering the urbanization process are proposed as well.