Abstract Building small towns and new country communities is one of the significant ways of the realization of new urbanization in China by encouraging farmers to live in the form of concentration. In the eastern coastal regions, such as Tianjin and Jiangsu provinces have achieved policy objectives of urban-rural land elements flow, reform of household registration system, and the integration of urban and rural development by promoting the concentrated inhabitation of peasants. But the applicability and effectiveness of these measures in other areas of China is still controversial. In view of this, the article has the statistical analysis on literatures including the total articles, survey regions, characterizations and research content, etc. The article is to give review of the occurrence mechanism, the operating mechanism, problems and evaluation from the distribution of the literatures of concentrated inhabitation of farmers. In order to lay the foundation for the follow-up in-depth study, the article investigates and reflects the concentrated inhabitation of peasants research trend in the process of new type of urbanization, by analyzing its development, revealing the characterization and problems of study on concentrated inhabitation of peasants. The results show that:the number of literatures on concentrated inhabitation of peasants is small and the quality is low. The research contents of concentrated inhabitation of peasants focused on the perspectives of living and social process, so it neglected that the concentration living has the feature of quasi-public products. Lots of researches used the quantitative analysis method to discuss the cause of farmers' will. Lacking of psychology, sociology, and other perspectives, and ignoring comparison between the regional and governance characteristics, the researchers chosen the same variable but the conclusions are different.
2015, Vol. 30 
