| After three decades’development, China has achieved remarkable economic success while an urban system with increasing the number and increasing sizes cities. As the engine of economic growth, cities played an important role in the modernization process, therefore studying about paths of urban development of China has its practical meaning for the long-term economic developmentThis paper attempts address to the problems which encountered in urban development using urban economy theories and empirical analysis, and provide a reliable urban development of the road. The main focuses of this thesis are how cities evolution,the urban efficiency, and urban gaps.We started first with the law of growth of Chinese cities, China’s urban growth and its determinating factors were discussed. Stochastic process model using1984-2008data of Chinese cities tested, the results show that the stochastic process model can not explain the growth of cities in China. After that the effects of spatial heterogeneity has been inspected on the growth of city size, in order to examine the explanatory power of economics model of urban growth. The results show that the natural and geographical conditions,and also market potential play important parts in urban growth process of the Chinese cities, and the situation of Chinese cities is in the middle of trade theory and new economic geography models.Changes in the productivity of cities directly determines the output capacity in the current technical and the way how resources allocatecd As China enters the high-income countries, the investment will become an important factor in stimulating economic growth; the efficient use of factors of production will have a major impact on economic growth. In this thesis estimations on factors that affect productivity of the Chinese prefecture-level cities and above has been take from1985to2009year by year. The results show that there is a gradual increase in efficiency in Chinese cities, the city size and the fixed capital stock has a positive influence on urban efficiency and apparent convergence trend is found between cities from different regions.After analysis of urban growth and urban efficiency, the thesis then turns to a serials of controversial issues that are strongly related to urban growth and urban efficiency:the level of coordination of the process of urbanization and economic development; coordination of infrastructure with level of urbanization and economic development, and the coordination of the process of urbanization and industrialization process, as well as gaps. Empirical analysis of the231countries and288cities in China showed that the urbanization process in China is lagging behind in economic development level and the level of industrialization, gaps existing in infrastructure construction.On the basis of the above study, we proposes the path of urbanization in China. According to studies on the external effect caused by aggregation by urban economics and modern economics, that the fundamental problems of the modern city is to make full use of external to raise the city’s production efficiency, acceleration of urbanization process; with the concept of systems theory, urban development issues are studied from the perspective of the urban system, with full respect for the personality of the city and the historical stage, thus positioning itself in the urban system development, and promote the system to maximize the benefits. From theory and practice in developed countries, these two principles is core issues of urban modernization. As can be seen by analyzing the current momentum of China’s urban modernization in economic development, the key link is the free flow of factors of production and industrial structure adjustment system to protect a market economy, fair combination of full allocation of resources and the government tune empty protection, the ultimate result comprehensive national strength increased, improved living standards, urban and rural residents, the income gap and common prosperity. |
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