The Study On The Development Of Small Rural Towns In Hubei

The development of rural urbanization of Hubei province improved significantly after the establishment of new china, especially after the reforming and opening-up of our country. But it is now falling behind contemporaneous industrialization in Hubei province seriously. Urbanization promotion could provide wider market and stronger drive for economic development. It is an important measure for optimizing urban and rural economic structure, improving good national economical cycle and collaborating with social development. On the base of full and accurate data, the dissertation makes an exhaustive study of the development of small towns in Hubei province. Therefore, It's very significant for speeding up the urbanization and industrialization process and contributing to the transfer of rural surplus labor force, increasing the income and consumption of peasants, leading the rapid economic development in Hubei Province and realizing the great objectives of modernization. Following the guiding line of the Third Plenary Session of the 15 Central Committee of the P. R. C and with a view to deepening the reform, the speed of rural development, improvement of the quality of life in small towns and urbanization, the development guide line for small towns should be determined as soon as possible. Scientific planning and proper layout will create prosperous and beautiful towns with unique characteristics.This paper includes four parts: The first chapter is the introduction. The historical background of small towns development in China is briefly introduced, and the current opportunity of rural small towns development is analyzed. Moreover, the practical significance of this paper is stated: quickening urbanization, realizing the conciliatory of rural and urban, and solving the problems of agriculture, villages and peasant, all of them need the development of small rural towns.The second part of the paper summarizes the common rules and characteristics of the urbanization in developed countries. Meanwhile, several models of Development Economics are quoted and some new ideas are put forward. We recognize that small towns development is the realistic choice for our country's urbanization, according to the urbanization practices around the world and Chinese reality.The third chapter of the paper not only split small towns development process of Hubei into three stages based on the construction reality in Hubei and historical background in national town development: recovery and development period, staggering and contraction period and rapid development period, and summarize the characteristics in different stages, but also focus on these characteristics in urbanization of Hubei: the east is dense but the west is sparse, the cities are mostly big and small cities, less medium cities, the layout is not reasonable, the management is not scientific and the cities are short of centralizing effect and so on. Based on these, this paper further summarizes main problems: the backward condition in planning, layout and construction, the small scale of small towns development, preferring quantity to quality in development, serious lacking of investment capital in town development and unreasonable investment system and out-of-date management system and the environmental pollution and waste of resources. Then the paper analyze the basic causes for the lagged status in urbanization of Hubei: lacking of strong government collaboration and control, the non-corresponding statusbetween town planning and town development, the lower standard for the establishment of town, the lagged reform in related system and lacking of capital. A typical case in Xiangfan has been analyzed.The last chapter is the conclusion of this paper. It expounds some antidotes and suggestions to the development of small rural towns in Hubei following six aspects: 1. To make proposal of small towns' construction with guiding principle, emphasis, scale and goals. 2. To build scientific planning and proper layout to construct the small towns. 3. To suit measures to local condition and highlight characteristics. 4. To perfect both concerted policies and innovate systems which consist of household register, land management, industrial policy, social security, administration mechanism, investment and layout management. 5. To carry out the strategy of small towns' sustainable development. 6. Facing the market, to collect funds in as more as possible directions and channels and to reform the investment mode about the construction of small towns.