9. Throw Zhejiang's Small Cities and Towns a "Lifeline"

Kong Xiangzhi

Chinese Economy, 2002, vol. 35, issue 2, 82-84

Abstract: Since the 1980s, the urbanization of China's countryside has entered a high-speed stage of development. The level of rural urbanization>sup>1>/sup> has risen by an incremental 0.625 percent per annum, far higher than the 0.2 percent average rate from 1952 to 1977. The number of small towns in China is now over 45,000, and of these, 19,000 are designated counties>sup>2>/sup> and over 26,000 are market towns. Practice has proved that through reducing the agricultural population and increasing the urban population, the rise in the level of urbanization can effectively solve the problem of the imbalance of interests between the two great forces of industry and agriculture, enlarge the spatial scope of the market for agricultural products, and raise the peasants' relative and absolute income levels. This plays a key role in promoting an improvement of the bifurcated town and country structure.

Date: 2002
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