Territorial Urbanization and Rural Urbanization
It is a process where the government changes the boundaries and divisions of areas for the growth and development of urban development. This helps achieve national economic goals. For instance, the government can create new economic hubs by giving more power to specific regions, like Shanghai’s Pudong area. These changes also let the government control resources and make political decisions.
Turning rural areas into towns and villages has recently become essential to China’s plan to make more people live in cities. The government has set goals for how many people should live in the towns by specific years. The government is also focusing on concentrating land and people in rural areas, and they’re making new towns and communities for people who move there. This process, called territorial urbanization, gives local leaders more power and money to make decisions and improve roads and schools.
Rural urbanization in China happened because farming became less collective and more individual, which created more workers. People started businesses with the money they made from farming. These changes led to the growth of small towns with modern facilities. Some experts call this “urbanization from below” because it happened without much government control. China’s government also allowed towns to expand their borders to include nearby villages, which helped them get more money from taxes. This made more towns and gave them more power compared to rural areas.
Rural to Urban Migration in China
Chinese Rural-to-Urban Migration: When countries become more industrialized, the population in rural areas tends to move to cities. China also saw this happen after making changes to its economy. People moved from rural areas to cities, causing the population in cities to increase a lot. This differed from before when the cities didn’t grow much, even though China was trying to become more industrialized. China’s immense size and unique way of developing make it very interesting to study how its cities grow and how people move from rural to urban areas.
We have mentioned in detail about Chinese rural-to-urban migration below.