Investigate the Relationship between Urbanization and Industrialization using a Coordination Model: A Case Study of China

Luo Luo,Xiang Xiang,Wang Wang

doi:10.3390/su12030916

Abstract

The coordinated development of industrialization and urbanization has become a common goal and concern of developing countries. At the same time, measuring the relationship between them is becoming a research hotspot. With reference to value engineering, we constructed a dynamic coordination model to analyze the degree of coordination between urbanization and industrialization in China. During the study, three primary indicators were used to assess the level of industrialization in China, namely: economic development, industrial structure, industrial enterprise. We also use demographic urbanization rate to evaluate the level of urbanization. Subsequently, a dynamic coordination model was established using panel data of China collected from 1978 to 2017. Through the dynamic coordination degree model, the changes in the degree of coordination between urbanization and industrialization in China from 1978 to 2017 were analyzed, and the reasons for the fluctuation of coordination degree were further explored. The results show that: (1) The coordinated development of urbanization and industrialization can be divided into six phases, which is consistent with the major reforms in China's rural and urban; (2) The degree of coordination fluctuated more obviously during 1991–1995, which reflected the unstable state of China in the process of coordinated development of urbanization and industrialization; (3) Most of the time, industrialization is ahead of urbanization, while with rapid economic development, urbanization, and industrialization, are gradually synchronizing in China. The results are of great significance for promoting the coordinated development of urbanization and industrialization and realizing the sustainable development of the city.

Highlights

With the rapid development of China’s economy and society and the deepening of the supply side reform, the level of industrialization and the level of urbanization have been improved [1,2]
According to the historical experience of developed countries and the objective laws of data statistics, the quantitative relationship between urbanization and industrialization is not a fixed relationship in traditional sense, but a reasonable fluctuation within a certain range, which is consistent with the principle of the most appropriate region method in value engineering
Since the reform and opening up China urbanization and industrialization coordination measuring result, the urbanization and industrialization coordinated development can be divided into six stages, respectively is 1978–1984, 1985–1990, 1991–1995, 1996–2002, 2003–2008, 2009–2017, which is consistent with China’s major reform of rural and city policy system time node

Summary

Introduction

With the rapid development of China’s economy and society and the deepening of the supply side reform, the level of industrialization and the level of urbanization have been improved [1,2]. Urbanization and industrialization of China have basically entered the accelerated development stage, while the contradictions between the economy, society, resources, and the environment are becoming increasingly prominent [3,4]. Due to China’s special national conditions, the incoordination between urbanization and industrialization has become an important factor restricting the development of the economy and society. Some people think that before the reform and opening, China’s urbanization lag behind industrialization, but with the rapid economic development, urbanization, and industrialization tend to be coordinated [2,4,9]. Others believe that the degree of coordination between urbanization and industrialization in China has not improved significantly since the reform and opening, and it is still in an uncoordinated state [1,4]

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