Realistic Analysis Of The Urbanization Of Western China And The Road Choice

West China is the least developed area in the country, which produced only 14.6 percent of the total GDP with 65.8 percent of the land and 23.7 percent of the population of the country. the lagging behind of west China and the continually increasing Regional Economy Inequality are becoming main problems in the development of Chinese economy and society . At the same time ,the Dual-structured Economy and Society system of western area is a key obstacle to its future development. The slow-down in the whole economy urges Chinese government to pay more attention on western area. As a result ,a series of policies has being carried out to help western provinces out of the vicious circle of poverty . However, the Dual-structured economy and society system of these provinces prevents them from developing efficiently. To make full use of these preferential policies, local governments of western area must speed up the development of urbanization to break the old system and make it possible for factors to flow freely between urban and rural areas. The process and pattern of Urbanization differ from nation to nation according to specific background. But one empirical conclusion is that there is a tight relation between the level of economy development and the level of urbanization of a nation or area. Therefore west China has to choose a suitable strategy of urbanization according to its own background and level of economy development to have a healthy economy system. In the following paper, the author analyses the institutional background and natural condition and historical experience of western area's urbanization development. Then she tries to give a comprehensive measure of the urbanization level of the area by comparing several important indexes with those of eastern area, finding out the present problems and possible keys to the problems. At the end of the discussion, the author also analyses some new changes in economic environment inside and outside the country and their effects on West China urbanization, and then gives her suggestion on strategy of West China urbanization.The paper is composed of four chapters. To begin with ,The first chapter points out the importance of the Urbanization of West China by analyzing the shocking difference between west and east China and the inequality between urban area and rural area in western provinces .Then there are a brief introduction of the theoretic basic of the whole paper and explanations of several key terms. In the second chapter, there is a full review of the background of the urbanization of West China which includes macro-intuition background, natural environment and the developing experience under the specific environment. Chapter3 is a comprehensive analysis of the real level of urbanization of west China by comparing urbanization indexes, such as the rate of urbanization population (dominant urbanization), the rate of recessive urbanization , the level of modernization of urban area and the quantity of cities of west and east area .Based on the relative analysis ,the author also points out the problems and misunderstanding existing in the strategy of urbanization development in western area. In the last chapter ,the author firstly looks in to some new changes that affects the development of urbanization in west China and then gives several principles to the selection of urbanization strategy of western area .The end of this chapter is the author's suggestion on the urbanization strategy of west China and some feasible policies to guarantee the realization of the strategy.