Definition of 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.

Marxist interpretation

Marx's capital urbanization theory is one of the main core contents of Marxist geography. According to this theory, the essence of a city is the artificial environment under the social system. Under the condition of capitalism, the generation and creation of urban man-made environment is the result of the control and function of capital, and the result of the development of capital itself to create humanistic material landscape suitable for its production purpose.

Capitalist interpretation

Generally speaking, it is the process that agricultural population turns into non-agricultural population, agricultural area turns into non-agricultural area, and agricultural activities turn into non-agricultural activities.

After the reform and opening up, China gradually liberalized the original population flow control, and a large number of migrant workers flowed to cities, accelerating the process of urbanization. It can be described as "Wan Li's reform of pursuing dreams in spring", and farmers become workers. High-rise buildings in barren beaches and wild mountains have been built into three-dimensional networked urban agglomerations. "

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Positive meaning

Reasonable urbanization can improve the environment, for example, by leveling the land, building water conservancy facilities, greening the environment and other measures, so that the environment can be transformed into a direction conducive to improving people's living standards and promoting social development, and the pressure of human activities on the environment can be reduced.

As the economic center of regional development, it can promote regional economic development, and the improvement of regional economic level can promote the development of cities; Promote the change of production mode, settlement mode, lifestyle and values.

Demographic transition

Cities can create more employment opportunities and absorb a large number of rural surplus population. The labor force gradually shifts from the primary industry to the secondary industry, the tertiary industry and the fourth industry.

industrial adjustment

The process of urbanization can effectively promote the development of rural areas and help improve the regional industrial structure.

industrial development

Urbanization helps to improve the efficiency of industrial production, and industrialization gives sustained impetus to urbanization.

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