The Empirical Analysis Of FDI Promote The Urbanization In The Yangtze River Delta Area

Because the size, concentration, radiation effects, city is the core centre of regional development. At the same time, urbanization will lead China's economic development in the next round of a major growth point. While foreign direct investment (Foreign Direct Investment, FDI) brought capital, technology, knowledge, corporate culture, management experience, will do significant impact on economic and social development of host country. Thus, foreign direct investment has increasingly gained attention.. Select Yangtze River Delta region where China's best urbanization and foreign direct investment development area as a good object of study, instead of using population as a single measurement, this article quantitatively calculated the degree of urbanization development of comprehensive strength values by hierarchy process measurement.On this basis, the use of comparative analysis, regression analysis the foreign direct investment impact of urbanization development. At the last system summary foreign direct investment on the role of the impact of urbanization process.The main conclusions of this paper as follows:(1) time series dimension that in the Yangtze River Delta region, foreign direct investment and Urban Development has a strong coherence, relevance, foreign direct investment is main influence to promote the development of urbanization (2) the role of foreign direct investment on the impact of urbanization process can be summarized in three stages, which can be known as the role of the early, role of the period and the role of the latter. In the role of the early, city itself in order to actively attract foreign direct investment carried out behavior and construction work, has formed a kind of advance trend that promote the further development of the urbanization, or can be understood as a budding power.In the role of the period, foreign direct investment's economic effects, industry led, spillover effects, etc., are beginning to push forward the process of urbanization impact. In the role of the latter along with the former impact that foreign direct investment impose on the urbanization,the city itself formed own the software and hardware capabilities accumulation to promote the process of urbanization continues, resulting in continuing to promote the development of urbanization inertia and trend.