区域差异与中国城市化的未来

Regional Differences and the Future of Urbanization in China

中国正处在快速城市化进程中,城市化既是农民进城的过程,又是大量人口由中西部地区向东部地区转移的过程,这个过程源自城乡差距和区域差距,进一步塑造了城乡差距与区域差距。中国发展中存在着城乡发展不平衡和区域发展不平衡,这种不平衡与工业化和现代化内在要求生产要素高度集聚有关。当前,中国存在的东西差距,本质上是城乡差距,实质上是东部沿海地区已经形成规模极为庞大的城市经济带;未来,农村人口进城和人口向东部地区转移具有必然性,而人口和生产力高度聚集是现代社会的普遍现象,具有合理性,中国城市化需要遵循此必然性。

China is in the process of rapid urbanization.The urbanization is not only the process of farmers entering cities,but also the process of a large number of people transferring from the central and western regions to the eastern ones.This process originates from the urban-rural gap and the regional ones.The imbalances of both urban-rural growth and regional development in China′s development,are related to the high concentration of productive factors inherent in industrialization and modernization.At present,the gap between the East and the West in China is essentially a gap between urban and rural areas,which is in nature an extremely large-scale urban economic belt in the eastern coastal areas.In future,it is inevitable for rural population to enter the cities and the population to transfer to the eastern regions,and the high concentration of population and productivity is a common phenomenon in modern society and reasonable.China′s urbanization needs to follow this inevitability.