城市化进程中的财富回流现象

Wealth backflow in the process of urbanization

关于城市化的探讨通常以经济职能为基础,其核心在于提高人口、资源、技术以及社会财富等要素在城市空间中的运营效率。但近年来频繁出现的进城务工人员返乡置业及创业现象预示着社会财富与城市经济职能正向城镇地区转移,这一现象引发了人们对城市化内涵与机制的再思考。从对财富概念与属性的认知出发,阐述城市化的"元"涵义,并认为从伦理上讲,城市化应是人们对就业机会的自由选择与生活条件改善的过程,而当前我国经济的发展现状也为这种传统城市化认识的转变提供了可能。

The debate on urbanization,of which key point is to raise the business efficiency of factors like population,resources,technologies,social wealth and so on within city areas,is usually based on the economic function. But the workers from rural areas often buy houses and find new jobs in their hometown recently. This means that the social wealth,which should be kept in cities,flows to rural areas,so that the phenomenon takes researchers＇ concern about the mechanism of urbanization from the aspect of sociology. This article firstly analyzes the meaning of wealth and argues that urbanization should be a choice procedure of job-finding and living-style-changing. It is concluded that the economic development of China provides at present the possibility of changing the understanding of traditional urbanization transformation.