The process and strategy of urbanization development in northwest China

Abstract

It is pointed out that the proportion of urban population is high but synthetical urbanization level is low in northwest China. The urban spacial distribution is influenced by usage of water resource, exploitation of mineral resource and constrained by transportation lines. The urban distribution is equipped with beaded characteristic.

It reveals that the main obstruction for urbanization are fragile economic basement, weak transportation facilities, low synthetical transportation capacity. It provides strategies of developing modern transportation, strengthening resource exploitation concentratively developing leading industries, establishing self—growh mechanism to improve urbanization level as a whole.