What does urbanization mean? Does rural demolition belong to urbanization?

Urbanization refers to the process of transforming rural population into urban population. An important indicator reflecting the level of urbanization is the urbanization rate, that is, the proportion of people living in towns in a region to the total population in the region. Urbanization is the process of population gathering in cities and towns, and it is an inevitable historical stage in the industrialization process of all countries in the world. At present, the level of urbanization in the world has exceeded 50%, and more than half of the population lives in cities.

Demolition can promote urbanization, but not every place can promote urbanization. On the edge of the city, because of economic development, rural areas have become cities, and the population is constantly gathering, so demolition has promoted the process of urbanization. However, it is not urbanization to engage in demolition and gathering in remote rural areas, and demolition depends on the situation.

Simply put, urbanization is to transform rural population into urban population, so that as many people as possible in the country can live in cities (and register as urban hukou), but it does not mean that towns develop into cities. As for the scale of the town after development, it may gradually become a city. This is the process of rural population becoming urban population, and this is urbanization. ?

An important indicator reflecting the level of urbanization is the urbanization rate, that is, the proportion of the population living in towns in a region to the total population in the region; This also reflects the economic level of a country.

Introduction to urbanization:

It refers to a historical process in which the rural population keeps flowing to cities and towns, and the secondary and tertiary industries keep gathering in cities and towns, thus increasing the number and scale of cities and towns. It mainly shows that with the development of social productive forces, the progress of science and technology and the adjustment of industrial structure, the residence of rural population moves to cities and towns, and the rural labor force moves to secondary and tertiary industries.

The process of urbanization also reflects the social changes experienced by countries in the process of industrialization and modernization.