Abstract
In this article, we studied the county-level city in China which was the special type in the city development of the world. Through the research about the concept and the origin of the county-level city, we found that the county-level city was different to the current “dot” city in the world, and it was a sort of town system on the “sphere” in the wider area. For China with 0.8 billion farmers, the county-level city for urban and rural certainly possesses special functions in the urbanization and the new countryside construction of China.
Highlights
US economist Joseph E Stiglitz who was the Nobel economic prize winner in 2001 said that, as the biggest developing country in the world, the urbanization of China and the high-tech development of US would be two important topics which would profoundly influence the human development in the 21st century (Xie, 2003)
In the tendency of the industrialization and the urbanization, many agricultural counties in former days in China are turning into the modern cities, and the farmers in former days are changing to modern citizens
Above three hundred county-level cities from counties are strong performers in Chinese about two thousand counties, and they have a long lead on the developments of the economy and the society, and they are the fresh troops for the city development of China, and in 655 cities, there are 368 county-level cities
Summary
Through the analysis about many definitions of the city and the comparison researches about the foreign and domestic city classification, combining with the facts of China, we thought that the county-level city in China was the city from the county, and it was the town system integrating points and sphere which took the former county area as the city area, took the county town as the center, took the town and villages as the crunodes. This definition endows the county-level city with three layers meanings. Based on the special meanings and charms of the county-level city, we studied the urbanization of the county-level city which was researched by few scholars, ascended the evolvement of the dweller points and the production of the county-level city, estimated the urbanization process of the county-level city, searched after the economic support and the system innovation of the growth for the county-level city, and proposed the policy advices for the growth and the development of the county-level city
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