Abstract:

Based on understanding of the concept of urbanization,the article estimated the population,economic and spatial urbanization levels and their growth rates of Chinese cities,and used the Hot Spot Analysis supported by Arcgis 93 to study the spatial distribution of the growth levels of urbanization of Chinese cities from 2000 to 2008,then revealed spatial model of urbanization in China.The conclusions include: the hot spots of development of urbanization in China since 2000 are still in the eastern coastal areas,mainly around the two big urban agglomerations which are the Bohai Rim and Pearl River Delta,and radiate gradually to the northeast areas,northwest areas and southwest areas which are cold spots.There is certain spatial correlation between the speeds of urbanization development and the level of urban economic development,but there is greater deviation between the speeds of urbanization development and the speed of urban economic growth,which means that the existing level of economic development has more pulling effects on the urbanization development than the economic growth does.The formation of spatial pattern of urbanization is under the influence of factors such as nature,history,policy,economy,population,and its mechanism mainly consists of governmentled “topdown” and marketoriented “bottomup” two roads.In the future the role of government will gradually weaken and the status of active force of the thrust will be further strengthened.〖HJ1〗〖HJ〗