中国城市化水平地区差异及其变动

Research on the Regional Gaps and Its Changes of the Provincial Urbanization Levels in China

根据城市化内涵建立城市化水平测度的复合指标体系,对中国省域1996～2002年的城市化水平进行了测度,采用锡尔(Theil)指数对中国城市化水平区域差异进行了分解,并分析了其变动趋势.结果表明:中国城市化总体水平不高,区域总格局变化不大,区域城市化发展不平衡突出,区域差异变动特征明显;三大地带的差异仍是中国城市化水平差异的突出问题,中西部城市化具有低水平上的一致性,其城市化任务艰巨并迫切.

This paper has measured the provincial urbanization levels of the year 1996-2002 in China by establishing complex indicators system according to the connotation of urbanization, decomposed the regional gaps of the urbanization levels in China by Theil index, and analyzed its change＇s trend. The analyses show, the whole urbanization level in China is not high, the basic pattern of the urbanization level in China has little change, nonequilibrium urbanization development is outstanding. The three large zones＇ gaps are still a serious problem as well as the inner differences in the east, the midland and the west zones. Because of the large gap between the east, the midland and the west zones, the urbanization task for the latter is harder and more important.