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| THE CHANGE OF REGIONAL INEQUALITIES OF URBANIZATION LEVEL AND ITS FACTORS IN JIANGSU PROVINCE SINCE REFORM AND OPENING |
| ZHAO Yu-bi, TANG Mao-lin |
| School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China |
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Abstract Urbanization is a process that involves human social and economic transformation, social change and cultural reconstruction, and that reflects economic and social progress of a region or a nation. Since the reforming and open-up, China's urbanization process has passed the threshold of stable development stage and entering the quick developing period. In recent years, the research on regional inequalities of urbanization in China have received extensive attention,, the research scales involve the different regions in China (such as "The Three Belts"), different provinces, different regions in a province even different cities and counties. The main research content is to explore the causes and variation of urbanization level between these different regions, urbanization, and to explore the different development paths of urbanization in these regions. Jiangsu Province is one of the pilot zones of the urbanization development process in China. Taking Jiangsu province as an example, this paper explores discusses the course and problems of urbanization in Jiangsu Province, analyzes the factors influencing Jiangsu's the urbanization and puts forward some suggestions on the urbanization of Jiangsu province. By the use of statistical analysis in combination with ArcGIS mapping method, this article describes the overview of the overall development of urbanization in Jiangsu Province since the reforming and opening up and points out that the Jiangsu urbanization has regional differences and these differences have been changing. The results show that both the correlation of foreign trade to the regional urbanization in Jiangsu Province and the association of the tertiary industry with the regional urbanization in Jiangsu Province have significantly improved, while the influence of the traditional agricultural development level on the urbanization in Jiangsu region is waning and the effects of the proportion of industrial working population and the population density on urbanization is gradually increasing.
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Received: 15 April 2012
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2013, Vol. 28 
