Abstract：Urbanization is a complex social economy transformation, which involves population, economy, society, culture, and so on, while city is a symbol of human civilization and a link of social life. Since the large scale of exploration and utilization of energy resources in North Shaanxi province, urban development in North Shaanxi has got a lot of achievements, and its urbanization level is also developing quickly. Based on the study of the driving mechanism's theory and cases of urbanization, the authors in this paper put out the current situation of North Shaanxi's urbanization, and draw the following conclusions: the urbanization development is over fast, the center county's influencing scale is limited, the eco-enviroument is in degradations, the infrastructure still needs to be improved, and the density of the city and the county is in scarcity. Then, the driving mechanism is put forward. It should include driving mechanism and the restricting mechanism. The driving mechanism is the pulling and pushing strength. They are the migration of urban and rural, the structure's change of the industries, the industrial driving, the largest task's driving mechanism, and so on. Among these, the most important force is the fastest development of the energy and chemical industry in the present stage;the second is the large project's development and construction;the third is industrial structure adjustment, which also includs developing service industry. What's more, all the enhancement of the agricultural productive forces, the attraction of urban living and the grain for Green Project are helpful to the enhancement of urban population. Meanwhile, the restricting mechanism is the weak eco-environment, the scarce water resources and the relatively backward system of the policy. Among those, the shortage of water resources is the most serious problem, which will restrict not only the industrial scale, but also the urban scale;the weak eco-environment will restrict the energy and chemical industrial development, resulting in the environment destruction;the relatively backward system of the policy, especially, the planned economy system restricts the fast development in industry and city.
In a word, the level and the quality of urbanization and urban economic development in the North Shaanxi area should be developed well under the premise of the large-scale development of energy resources, such as coal, petroleum and gas, the policy of West Development, the construction and improvement of transportation, water conservation and other infrastructure, while fostering regional growth poles and elevating the energy chemical industry base in northern Shaanxi.
雷敏, 曹明明, 缪光, 陈海. 陕北地区城市化驱动力研究[J]. 人文地理, 2008, 23(4): 36-40.
LEI Min, CAO Ming-ming, MIAO Guang, CHEN Hai. THE STUDY OF THE NORTH SHAANXI'S URBANIZATION AND IT'S DRIVING MECHANISM. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2008, 23(4): 36-40.
