Urbanization Process Of The Evolution Of The Peasant Way Of Life

There is a common law and experience in the world, that is urbanization always keeps the same pace with industrialization. However, the process of our country's urbanization is much more slowly than that of industrialization. Besides industry structure, dual system between rural and urban, household registration system, the backward rural lifestyle is an important factor that can't be ignored. So urbanization is a mutual process, which includes not only the transformation from rural residents to urban residents, but also the popularization of urban lifestyle to countryside.After more than twenty years' reformation, rural economy has developed fast and peasants' income has also great increased, but majority peasants' lifestyle hasn't utterly improved. Scientific, civilized, healthy and modern lifestyle hasn't be developed, which restricted the demand growth so as to confine the concordant development of society and evolution of urbanization process. At the same time, it also caused the peasants who have entered urban areas can't turn to be truly citizens enjoying modern civilization.Firstly, the paper deduced the mechanism that lifestyle dedicate to the pace of the urbanization process with lifestyle theory, dual system theory, rural urbanization theory etc. It also studied the common evolutional tendency of rural lifestyle in the course of urbanization and the common traits of urban lifestyle and ideal lifestyle.Secondly, the paper summarized the basic characters of rural lifestyle in the primary-state of urbanization so as to pave the way for studying the change and evolution of rural lifestyle in the middle-state of urbanization.Thirdly, taking an example of central Jiangsu Region, the paper analyzed the consumption lifestyle, leisure lifestyle, social communication lifestyle and household lifestyle in the middle-state urbanization with documents, statistical data and on-the-spot investigation data.Lastly, the paper summaried the objective law of rural lifestyle evolutionin the course of urbanization, and came up with methods and means to improve rural lifestyle, such as building systematic and fair national preference, perfecting all the rural organizations, developing rural economy, strengthen village cultural construst, improving the comprehensive level of town and so on.