The impact of China's rural industrialization upon the urbanization of population and its theoretical significance
Wang, X.
Chinese Journal of Population Science 1(1): 11-19
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 1044-8403 PMID: 12316556 Document Number: 332907
The author examines the impact of industrialization on urbanization and the rural structure in China. "The development of rural industries and industrialization of rural areas are the most feasible and effective ways to help in the transference of rural population and...urbanization. The growth of rural industries will help expand and re-direct rural labor from agricultural resources to non-agricultural resources, to the processing of farm produce and by-products, to pre- and pro-production services for agriculture and to cooperation with urban industries... The results will include the expansion of laboring fields, a more elaborate social division of labor, changes in social, economic and employment structures as well as an increase in employment opportunities...."