Case Study Of Urbanization On The Outskirts Of Beijing

21 Century is the century of world urbanization, and the term of China developing rapidly. China's urbanization develops swiftly, but the level of urbanization develops slowly. The urbanization level of one area shows its economic strength with the development of centre of city, especially of its surrounding suburb. Beijing posed strategic aim of taking the lead in realizing basically modernization before 2008. However, how dose the modernization of suburb develop affects the realization of Beijing modernization. Therefore, in order to realize its own modernization, Beijing must put suburban modernization into the first place. The essential way to realize the modernization of suburb, develop its economy and reduce the distinction between town and country is to develop the urbanization of suburb.Located in rural-urban fringe in Beijing, Xi Zongtun village is under the charge of Liyuan town in Tongzhou District in Beijing. Changed from a poor village to a part of the city with perfect infrastructure and happy-living villager, Xi Zongtun village has become a miniature in the development of urbanization in Beijing's suburb. The paper introduces general situation of Tong Zhou District and Xi Zongtun village, including their basic circumstance of nature, history, geography...etc., analyzing the feature of urbanization of Xi Zongtun village. Xi Zongtun village is located in rural-urban fringe in Beijing. The economic formation of Xi Zongtun village has already shifted modern city industry from traditional agriculture. But the land property, formation, social organization, administration system still lingers on the traditional system of the country. The villager's living way and values are in one hand tremendously influenced by modern city; on the other hand still retain a part of traditional country's living way and values. In a sum, the village presents a transitional feature from traditional country to modern city. The process of urbanization is a social change in the meantime. Xi Zongtun village demonstrates five aspects of social change in its urbanization process, including assets changed to capital stock, peasants became shareholders; reasonable authority structure ensued community development; improved living environment, gave people quiet and comfortable life; realized full employment by founding business; created harmony community by developing social cause. But Xi Zongtun village is still on the way to urbanization. The environment of the quick variety requests an administration system and the continuous improvement and adjustment of the psychological state of its people. For example, the transform of house property right, the administration and service of spillovers and psychological mediation of the villager shifting to the citizen. These problems will be solved in the further development.The characteristics of the paper are as follows: Firstly, the author clearly elaborates the features, social changes and questions of suburb urbanization on the basic of the detailed materials. Secondly, the paper mainly regards the theory of tradition and modern as analyzing suburb urbanization, which is less in past research.