The Research On The Present Situation And The Developing Tactics Of Small Towns In Zhoukou

To develop small towns and to transform the superfluous manpower in rural areas into that working on non-agricultural industries as well as working in cities are an inexerable trend of industrialization and modernization, and also,is the necessary solution to a series of problems, such as the insufficient domestic demand and the pressure brought by the migration of rural population to big cities.In the meantime citifying rural areas is the key point of rural modernization and regional development. Under the very background, how to develop small towns has been focused by all the related academic research and numerous findings have been achieved. However, among these studies, only a few are focused on the way to citify rural areas in Chinese Middle less developed area and developing strategies for small towns in this area. Therefore, in this work, Zhoukou, a typical city in this area has been taken as our research model to analyse the present situation and problems of the small towns in Zhoukou area, to discusss the method and the basis of classification for small towns and appropriate developing strategies for various types of small towns. And it is wished that it could provide some inspriation for the acceleration of small towns construction in Chinese Middle area and other main-character agriculture areas.In these article, three parts were included, In the first part, the related theories of small town development were discussed, induding well-considered findings for small towns at home and abroad and the mechanism of development of small towns and the way of classification, and also the role of small town in developing a certain region was discussed in theory. And thus the research on developing small towns and the way to citify them was done.In the second part, based on Chapter One, analysis to the present situation of small towns in Zhoukou was given and the classification according to the small towns' function was advanced, then the writer drew up the developing strategies for small towns according to the actual situation.Including encnomy development level and structure sevices for living, scale of towns and construction level, position and transportation conditions, potential of region develeping in all thirteen parameters, all of which belonging to five board sorts, were adopted, and Principal Component Analysis,combined with qualitative analysis, was applied, at the same time,to classify the small towns of Zhoukou into six types.In the third part, developing tactics in general for small towns was discussed, Firstly, for the general problems existing in the development of all the small towns of Zhoukou, the future developing model and strategies were put forward synthetically. Secondly, according to the specific characteristic of different types of small towns, the developing strategies, for every aspect of every type were studied in detail.Generally speaking the inward development routine should be preferred. On the basis of strengthening planning, using every advantageous policy, small town of specific characteristic would be developed gradually and the level of urbanization in Zhoukou would be improved.The special things in this paper which deserve to be mentioned are as follows:the writer made a systematic study on the development of small towns in Zhoukou and in the second part produced the qualitative and quantitative analysis process for the classification of small towns in Zhoukou. Based on these, developing tactics for different types of small towns were proposed in the third part, which are wished to provide some inspiration for the acceleration of small towns construction in Zhoukou and the whole Chinese Middle area.