Investment And Urbanization

Urbanization is the result of the development of society and economy. Investment is an important macroeconomic factor that promotes economic growth. Investment structure gives impetus to the changes of industrial structure and the structure of employed persons. This thesis analyses comprehensively the relationship between the investment agglomeration investment structure and investment fluctuation and urbanization from the perspective of mechanism of investment promoting the process of urbanization, based on the theories of agglomeration economics, industrial economics, Marxism political economics and New institutional economics, jumps out of the loop in which the study of urbanization stays, forms the common route of urbanization promoting the process of urbanization, enriches the theory study of urbanization, and explores the most basic urbanization driving force in a developed commercial economy and society. At the background of Chinese urbanization process ,this thesis forms the technical analysis framework about how the investment agglomeration scale, investment structure and investment fluctuation affects urbanization, sums up the common opinion and conclusion by quantitative analysis, and puts forward some suggestions to coordinate the relationship between investment and urbanization and promote the process of urbanization by the analysis of investment structure and fluctuation. This thesis is divided into six chapters.Chapter 1 the introduction is the first part of this context, which mainly explains the foundation and significance of choosing the title and the thoughts, the content, the framework and some explanation.Chapter 2 theories about investment, which mainly summarizes the four aspects: definition of investment and connotation, relationship between investment and economic development, investment structure and institution arrangements about investment.Chapter 3: theories about urbanization, which presents urbanization and its motivation mechanism, relationship between urbanization and industrial structure and the measurement of urbanization level.Chapter 4: the exploration of theory about investment promoting urbanization, the first section analyses from the micro-perspective that the process of investment agglomerating into urban is just the process of urbanization on the basis of investment location theory and urbanagglomeration economics; the second section analyses from the mid-perspective the industrial structure development law investment structure may form the structures of industries and labor employed. The third section analyses the way in which the investment promotes urbanization on the base of New-Marxism political economics. The forth is about the institutional arrangement. Institutional arrangements decide the investor structure and investment distribution, that are the industrial structure and spatial distribution.Chapter 5: the political economic explanation of the process of investment promoting urbanization in China, which is composed by 6 sections. The first section analyses the changes of the investors at the background of investing institutional changes with the economic system reforming. Government is the sole investor before reform and opening up, and after it government enterprises individual and foreign investment compose the situation of multi-investor. The multi-investor structure forms the multi-motivation. The second analyses the urbanization history in China from the perspective of investment circulation and movement. The third section presents the relationship between urbanization and spatial investment distribution. The forth section analyses the technical course in which investing industrial structure affects the process of urbanization, points out the reason that Chinese urbanization lagged behind the economic development in the late 20 years in 20th century by quantitative analysis, and concludes that the basic motivation of urbanization is industrialization by comparing marginal efficiency of capital investment and output structure. The fifth section is the statis...