Research On The Development Of Small Towns During Urbanization In China

The industry revolution originated from England in the middle 1900s had brought human society a new visage. Since then, the world had been changed from rural society to industry society, and it had entered the age of urbanization. During this period, the number and the scale of cities grew rapidly, and so did the proportion of population in urban area to the whole population in the world. Urbanization has become the basic principle in the development of society& economy and it has also become the important signal of economic and social progress in a country. With the successive proceeding industrialization on the globe, the process of urbanization in the world is obviously accelerated. However, every country's economic development level, system and national conditions are different, therefore, every country should choose their own road fitting for itself according to its national conditions.In the process of urbanization in China, the speed of it is slow because our country was being carried on the system of planning economy. And it is being on the dualistic configuration between city and rural area for a long time, what's more, it greatly lags behind the level of industrialization. The situation has already pulled off our country's economic development, therefore, it is an acute problem to enhance the level of urbanization. Although different expert has different views that how to enhance the level, forever, thinking of our country's peculiar national conditions, the author thinks that the construction of small towns is an important component of the strategy of China's urbanization at present. Small towns are seated on the tail of urban and on the hair of rural, which are the bridges that link cities to rural areas. It can deal effectively with the problem of transferring rural surplus labor force to non-agriculture. It can also speed up the development of the industries beyond the agriculture ones, optimize the rural industrial structure, increase the peasant income and stare the rural consuming market, so that it canenhance the rural modernization of our country and realize urban and rural coordinated growth.The thesis is divided into six parts. Its structure and main content are summarized as follow:The first part is introduction. It briefly presents the research background and significance. Based on the research in home, it puts forward the angle of the thesis.The second part expounds on small towns in five aspects. The first aspect is the definition of small town; The second aspect is the analysis of the background of dualistic configuration between city and rural area on which the small town was prosperity; The third aspect looks back the development of small towns in 50 years after the founding of the new China; The forth aspect is the summarization of main pattern in the developing of small town; The fifth aspect analyzes its developing situation at present.The third part studies the second time of starting an undertaking of township enterprises related to the development of small towns. The development of township enterprises is the inner impetus to small towns, at the same time, the development of small towns is the necessary condition to township enterprises. But at present, the layout of township enterprises is too distracting, the scale of them is too small, and the industrial structure is not fitting, which are diminishing their competitiveness in the market economy. Township enterprises must be taken up the second time of undertaking rapidly, so that it can promote the mutual development between small towns and township enterprises.The forth part discusses the transferring of rural surplus labor force related to the development of small towns. First, this part summarizes simply some main theories about population transfer, then analyzes the background of rural surplus labor force transfer of China. At last, it discusses the restricting factors which hamper the transferring of rural surplus labor force and it puts forward that it is a good pattern that rural surplus labor force is t...