A Study Of Government Management Of Rural Highways In The Urbanization Process

Urbanization is the new growth point of world economy. It isgenerally believed that urbanization increased by one percent canpull GDP increase one point five to two percents. The economicdevelopment of our country is fast, but the urbanization levelcouldn’t keep up with the speed of industrial development. It hasbecome the bottleneck of restricting the further economicdevelopment so that our country government treats theurbanization as a very important task at present.Highway is basic public facilities in the social developmentwhich links up the corners of the society. It plays a foundational rolein guarantee of the development of the national economy and theimprovement of people’s living standard. Rural roads coverage islarge and service people are numerous so it is the capillaries of theroad. Rural highways are directly related to the development ofrural economy and regional urbanization level. Rural roads impacton the development of the region from various aspects such aseconomy, transportation, life and thinking.Convenient transportation is good for free flow of resources between urban and rural areas. It treats urban and ruraldevelopment as a whole. At the same time it will improve theefficiency of the resource configuration. Finally achieve thecomprehensive coordinated development between urban and ruralareas. Rural road construction has a great role in promotingurbanization such as promoting modern agriculture, improvingagricultural comprehensive production capacity, consolidating thefoundation position of agriculture, booming the rural economy,improving production conditions and living conditions of ruralresidents and narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas.Empirical studies have shown that transport and urbanization haveobvious linear relationship. Traffic convenient security will improvethe level of urbanization, at the opposite side the traffic cansignificantly hamper urbanization lag. At the same time, trafficfacilities support for urbanization. The high level urbanization alsomeans that the traffic of this region has reached the requiredstandard.Since the reform and opening-up policy, the economic developsrapidly. Urbanization level has improved, but the urbanization levelis still slightly behind the national average level. Urbanization isbehind the industrialization. Urban infrastructure is fall behind;urbanization quality also needs to be further improved. In theseyears construction of the rural roads obtains the rapid development.It is adapted to the basic meet the requirements of the productionlife of the local residents and contributing to local economic. Butrural roads of Linfen City still have many problems at present,including significant regional disparities; rural highway maintenance does not reach the designated position and so on.According to theoretical analysis of the linear relationshipbetween urbanization level and rural roads, now the rural highwaysof Linfen can’t satisfy the demand for the development of theurbanization of Linfen. In order to meet the needs of thedevelopment of the urbanization of Linfen, Linfen rural highwayshould be under the government management. Under thegovernment management, they should mobilize various aspectspositive strength, base on scientific planning with effectivemanagement means to solve exist problems of the capital, system,the maintenance of rural roads. Including improve the penetrationrate, density and quality, then promote the long-term developmentof rural highway and provide effective support for urbanizationconstruction.This article starts from the background of urbanization and therelationship between urbanization and rural highway. It is exploringthe urbanization progress of Linfen and the relationship betweenthe level of rural highway development. It studies the existingproblems in the rural highway management; perform the duties ofthe government in the rural highway management. So that it willpromote the development of urbanization in Linfen and make ruralroads can better service for peasants, contribute to rural economicdevelopment.