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| ON THE URBANIZATION DEVELOPMENT SINCE REFORM AND OPENING UP IN CHINA——A Survey from the View of the Coordination between City & Countryside |
| WANG Fu-xi, SUN Hai-yan |
| Institute of Geography and Planning, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China |
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Abstract Urbanization is the comprehensive transformation process from traditional rural areas and agriculture society to modern off farm society in human society. The noteworthiness the urban-rural development disparity and city-country dual structure character become more and more clear with urbanization level are high enhanced in China near 20 years. Today, China has become the primary country in urban-rural income disparity in the world. The obvious urban-rural development disparity has historical reason as well as factor effect of system and policy. If the main causation of unbalance of urban-rural development before the beginning of reform and opening up was basal discrepancy of urban-rural development early in New China and long executive system of "urban-rural disport government, one country two plan" after 1949, the continued expansion of the urban-rural disparity after mid-1980s, especially since 1990s was the result of bravely pushing urbanization at the cost of sacrificing peasantry interests to a great extent. Driven by powerfully economical profit, many local governments occupy country ground, lowliness expropriation and costliness remise, exploitation section blossom all over, city disordered construction extends, countless peasantry lose ground in the huge city-building movement and become the victims of urbanization in new period. Urbanization, as a measure aimed at promoting peasantry income and driving country prosperity, has resulted in numbers of peasantry losing ground and out of work and caused unbalance of urban-rural development. At present, China has come into the acceleration development period, facing the challenges of big urbanization need pressure and unbalance of urban-rural development. So the traditional urbanization development pattern, that regards quantity as importance but neglects quality, should be changed and the urbanization pavements of urban-rural coordination should be chosen.
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Received: 24 June 2008
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2009, Vol. 24 
