中国城市化和产业升级的协同发展

The Synergy of Urbanization and Structural Upgrading in China

中国提高城市化率的潜力巨大。到目前为止,中国基本实现了产业升级和城市化的协同发展。值得注意的是,自2014年以来,相对于城市化率的提高速度,中国的产业升级出现趋缓势头。因而,在继续推动城市化的过程中,中国应该充分利用各种制度和政策手段加速产业升级、提高城市化效益。唯其如此,中国的城市化才能具有可持续性,中国经济的增长潜力才能通过城市化得到进一步释放。

Urbanization is a result of industrialization.Over the past 40 years,China has made tremendous headway in urbanization.However,urbanization needs the support of structural upgrading,which provides job opportunities for migrants who are moving into cities from the countryside.On the whole,China has achieved a balanced development between urbanization and structural upgrading in the past.However,since 2014,it seems that the speed of China’s structural upgrading has slowed down relative to urbanization.Hence,to sustain China’s urbanization and further achieve the growth potential through urbanization,the government may need to take measures to speed up structural upgrading to sustain the progress in urbanization.