Rural-urban laborers-mobility and urbanization in China

Abstract

Urbanization, as a company of industrialization, is a general process in the world economic development. After the World War II, this process began to accelerate in developing countries and continues rapidly today. The author develops a theoretical model in this articles to explain the different urbanization ways between developed and developing countries. Based on the two sectors analysis, the author examines the main factors that encourage or restrain labor force mobility between rural and urban areas and sets up the balance as well as unbalance models. This theory can explain the unbalanced situation in China’s urbanization and understanding the impact of population policy as well as industrial development policy.