Characteristics and Prospect of China ' s Urbanization Development

Although China has experienced a booming development of urbanization since reform and opening-up, China's urbanization level is currently overestimated, which is mainly reflected by the large portion of agricultural population who cannot enjoy the benefits of urban residents contained in China’s urban population. This paper elucidates the problems arising in China's urbanization process and projects the development trend of China’s urbanization. On this basis, the paper discusses the correct development direction of China’s urbanization in the future. The paper argues that the influence of the household registration system is the major factor to hinder the normal development of urbanization in China. To make China’s urbanization advance efficiently, China will have to thoroughly reform the household registration system and a series of related policies, consolidate the contribution of population migration to China’s urbanization, and enable several hundred millions of rural-urban migrants to be urbanized.