Urbanization in China and the Coordinated Development Model-The case of Chengdu

被引:69
作者
Chen, Aimin [1 ]
Gao, Jie [2 ]
机构
[1] Sichuan Univ, Res Inst Econ Dev, Chengdu 610065, Sichuan, Peoples R China
[2] Sichuan Univ, Coll Econ, Chengdu 610065, Sichuan, Peoples R China
关键词
Urbanization; Coordinated Development; Three concentrations; Land de-segmentation; Land-use-right exchange; Consolidated industrial areas; New residential communities;
D O I
10.1016/j.soscij.2011.05.005
中图分类号
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
China's urbanization faces two greatest difficulties of creating non-farm jobs to "landless farmers" and providing required amenities and social services to urbanites-to-be. In the earlier phase of development, WE employment had provided important relief to the job pressure. Later, the "Small-city Strategy" that emphasized forming towns and small cities around where rural population resided successfully deterred rural population's entry into large cities. Today, China is implementing a Coordinated Development between the urban and rural sectors, aiming to reach a balanced development between the two sectors by making not only large cities more welcoming to rural migrants but also the small cities, towns, and areas where rural population now reside harder to leave. At the core of the coordination are three concentrations of rural residents, farmland, and firms, intended to help rural residents to settle in large cities, small cities and towns, as well as new residential areas in the countryside, to de-segment land to realize economies of scale, and to gather firms of a same industry in organized industrial areas to gain agglomeration economies and create non-farm jobs. This article examines the trajectory of China's urbanization, analyzes the working mechanism of the Coordinated Development model, and investigates Chengdu's practice of the Coordinated Development, which will help to provide insights into the new developments in China's urbanization. (C) 2011 Western Social Science Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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