What is urbanization?

Urbanization, also known as urbanization, refers to the historical process that a country or region gradually changes from a traditional rural society dominated by agriculture to a modern urban society dominated by non-agricultural industries such as industry (secondary industry) and service industry (tertiary industry) with the development of social productive forces, the progress of science and technology and the adjustment of industrial structure.

In a narrow sense, urbanization refers to the process in which the agricultural population is continuously transformed into the non-agricultural population. Broadly speaking, urbanization is a process of social and economic changes, including the continuous expansion of non-agricultural population and urban population, the continuous expansion of urban land to suburbs, the increasing number of cities and the process of urban social, economic and technological changes entering the countryside.

Extended data:

Since the reform and opening up, China's urbanization economy has made rapid development.

1978, there were only 193 cities and 2,000 small towns in China. 1978-expand the number of towns, counties and administrative districts after 2002, 1992-20 13 expand the scale of development zone construction boom, new town construction boom and district setting boom, and expand the metropolitan area, urban agglomeration and urban belt cluster in 2002-20 18. In the process of reform and opening up, the overall pattern of cities presents the characteristics of agglomeration. In recent years, there has been a phenomenon of local diffusion, and cities and towns around metropolises, second-tier cities and cities in the central region are accelerating their development.

40 years of urbanization has made China's urban population gather surprisingly, and citizens' life has undergone qualitative changes. After 1978- 1995, the urbanization rate of permanent population and registered population rose slowly in the early stage of urbanization, and the urbanization rate of permanent population accelerated in 1996-20 10, and the urbanization rate of registered population rose slowly in the middle and early stage. From 20 1 1 to 20 18, the urbanization rate of permanent residents slowed down and the urbanization rate of registered population accelerated. From 1978 to 20 17, the urban population of China increased from1700,000 to 810,000,000, achieving the largest scale in human history.

At the same time, the per capita disposable income of urban residents has increased from 343 yuan in 1978 to 36,396 yuan in 20 17, the per capita life expectancy has increased from 68 years in 1978 to 76.5 years in 20 17, and the per capita education years have increased from/kloc-0.

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Guangming Daily-Experience and Enlightenment of Urbanization Development in China in the Past 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up