Recent Urbanization Speed and Distribution of Urban Population in China.

This article focuses on recent urbanization speed and distribution of urban population in China. Urbanization has been a trend in the world for more than a century. Particularly since the end of the Second World War, the rate of urbanization of the population has increased rapidly with industrialization and the fast growth of the social productive forces. Today, the urban population of developed countries usually makes up more than 70 percent of their total population. As a result, they are basically urbanized. In developing countries, the proportion of urban population is about 30 percent. However, in the thirty years from 1950 to 1980, their urban population grew, for every ten years, at an increasingly higher rate than that of the developed countries. For the whole world to become urbanized is a historical inevitability. China is a developing socialist country with a low level of urbanization. Its urban population amounted to 210 million in 1982, topping the world in terms of absolute numbers, but only accounting for 20.8 percent of the total population.