Abstract
AbstractChina’s rapid urbanization has generated substantial attention throughout the world. There are various studies that assess China’s urbanization process but without consistent conclusions. This paper attempts to evaluate China’s urbanization level based both on global urban development experience and on urbanization theories; in addition, it adopts the quadrant plots method to assess China’s regional urbanization level. The results of this study show that China’s urbanization rate is proceeding at a normal level that is consistent with Northam Curve Growth Theory, the Lewis’s Migration Theory, Chenery’s Theory of Normal Growth, and also with China’s economic development stage. However, certain problems and challenges remain to be examined, such as the low-level coordination between China’s urbanization and nonagricultural employment and the narrow difference between urbanization rate and industrialization level. In general, most of the eastern provinces show a high coordination between urbanization...
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