The Approaches And Countermeasures To The Development Of Small Cities And Towns In West China

As an important symbol of the world economy's development, the urbanization can promote the transfer of rural population into cities and towns, alleviate the pressure of employment, accelerate the economic development in rural areas, reduce the burden of the farmland, protect the environment from artificial destroy, change the economic structure and improve the sustainable development. Complying with the special situations in the western part of China, constructing small cities and towns is the main approach to the urbanization. The constructing of small cities and towns costs less than that of big cities, also demands less for the transfer of the rural population. Under the situation of an undeveloped economy, constructing small cities and towns can effectively promote the development of society and economy, resolve the problem of "peasant, agriculture, rural areas", alleviate the environmental pressure and promote the national solidarity and stability in border areas. The domestic and external studies on small towns involve many fields, including the town programming, the developing mode, ecological environment and the interrelated policies as well, and provide plenty of experiences for the town constructing in West China. After a fifty years development, the small towns in West China already has a scale, but the present conditions can not satisfy the need of the urbanization, represents as the few quantity, the little scale, the unreasonable programming, the weak economic impetus, the environmental problems, the deficient basal and public facilities and large numbers of surplus labors in rural areas. Establishing a suitable approach for town constructing is an emergency in order to promote the economy and protect the environment. Based on the theories of economics and ecology, started with the local situations and took ecological effect, economic effect and social effect as the targets, the study advanced an approach with a scientific programming and a reasonable distribution for the town constructing in West China in order to direct the ecological migration and the establishing of ecological industry. The migration could provide labor resource to the town constructing and alleviate the environmental pressure, it also could assemble the rural population so that the traditional life style would be changed and the utilization efficiency of the basal and public facilities would be enhanced. Directed by the theory of circular economics, utilizing the resources and regional advantages, the industries could be rebuilt, including processing of agricultural products, utilization of the mineral resources and developing the tour industry, thus the economy would be promoted, the assembling ability would be enhanced and meanwhile, environmental problems would be reduced or avoided. In the western part of China, the economic level and environmental problems hindered the development of small towns, but on the other hand, the supportive factors could promote the development of small towns successfully, including the renovation of systems, the increase of investment, the establishment of basal and public facilities, the development of education and the utilization of the predominance of natural resources.