State-sponsored and spontaneous urbanization in Fujian province of China, 1982–2010

The different effects of the determinants of urbanisation on state‐sponsored and spontaneous urbanisation in Fujian Province of China

“…The dual‐track urbanisation can describe the urbanisation process in China comprehensively in the postreform period. The concept has been used in some regional case studies of China's urbanisation process (Lau & Chiu, 2013; Lin & Shen, 2019; Shen et al, 2002; Shen & Lin, 2017).…”

“…To fill this research gap, this paper examines the urbanisation process at county level in Fujian Province. This is the third part of a larger research project, extending on two previous studies of urbanisation in Fujian that have taken a descriptive approach (Shen & Lin, 2017) and an approach based on employment sectors (Lin & Shen, 2019). Using the dual-track urbanisation framework, this paper reconsiders the classical theoretical question of the relationship between urbanisation and development and also studies the effects of administrative status and path dependency on urbanisation using the dual-track urbanisation framework.…”

Identifying the Determinants of Urbanization in Prefecture-Level Cities in China: A Quantitative Analysis Based on Spatial Production Theory

“…During this period, almost all of the world's population growth will be absorbed by cities in less subjected to the national industrialization strategy, and urbanization participants lacked the rights to choose independently under the urban-rural dual structure system. Since the early 1980s, the influencing factors have changed significantly, manifested as the co-existence of dual-track urbanization: spontaneous urbanization (bottom-up urbanization) and state-sponsored urbanization (top-down urbanization) [23]. The concept of dual-track urbanization has been successfully applied to the study of urbanization process in China, the Pearl River Delta, and Fujian Province [23][24][25][26].…”

“…Since the early 1980s, the influencing factors have changed significantly, manifested as the co-existence of dual-track urbanization: spontaneous urbanization (bottom-up urbanization) and state-sponsored urbanization (top-down urbanization) [23]. The concept of dual-track urbanization has been successfully applied to the study of urbanization process in China, the Pearl River Delta, and Fujian Province [23][24][25][26]. Since the mid to late 1980s, foreign capital has become a new driving force of urbanization in China [24,27], and the driving forces of China's urbanization have gradually turned into a multi-driving one [28][29][30][31].…”

“…In summary, the aforementioned studies expanded the multi-dimensional perspectives and approaches of urbanization dynamic mechanisms, which are important to optimize urban-rural population distribution. However, the previous studies mainly focused on the impacts of market force, intrinsic force, and exterior force on urbanization, while ignoring the needs of vulnerable groups, which is inconsistent with the people-oriented urbanization advocated by the new-type urbanization; and is also not conducive to achieving the goals of three "100 million people" [10,23]. The goal of this policy is to promote about 100 million agricultural-based people to settle in cities and towns, transforming city villages and shantytowns, where about 100 million people currently live, and guiding about 100 million people to settle in nearby towns and cities in Central and Western China.…”