"We should combine making the economic cake bigger and stronger with accelerating the pace of urbanization. Cities are ideal places to meet people's demand for public services and products. ..... With the settlement of major projects, Zhanjiang will usher in a great industrial take-off in the next few years. We must plan the best path to realize urbanization and urban modernization as soon as possible, promote urbanization with industrialization, and promote social construction and social management transformation and upgrading with urbanization. " -Liu Xiaohua, Secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee "Prominently promotes the construction of big cities. According to the idea of upgrading planning, speeding up construction, strengthening management and focusing on management, the regulatory detailed planning of Haidong New District and Central Business District will be compiled as soon as possible, the construction of Zhanjiang Avenue and Guannan Avenue and the reconstruction and expansion of Haibin Avenue will be accelerated, the road grade will be upgraded, and all urban main roads will be asphalted within three years. Focus on the construction of the main venue of the Provincial Games, the relocation of the Central People's Hospital and the relocation of Zhanjiang Airport. " —— Wang Zhongbing, Acting Mayor of Zhanjiang "At present, the urbanization rate in Zhanjiang is less than 40%, which is significantly lower than the level of 66% in the whole province and 50% in the whole country, and the development potential of urbanization is still huge." At the 14th plenary session of the 9th Zhanjiang Municipal Committee held not long ago, Liu Xiaohua, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, made a report on "Strengthening Social Construction, Innovating Social Management, and Making Zhanjiang People Live More Confident, Proud and Happier" on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, in which the problem of low urbanization rate in Zhanjiang was mentioned in the form of data comparison. First of all, urbanization is not only manifested in the transfer of population from rural areas to cities, and the expansion of urban population and urban area, but also in the centralized transfer of production factors to cities. The most essential connotation of urbanization is the transformation of the city itself to a higher level. This change caused by urbanization is manifested in the shift of output value structure and employment structure to secondary and tertiary industries, and the continuous growth of urban per capita GDP. The concentration and scale of industrial production are the objective requirements of productivity development. Industrial agglomeration is conducive to saving public investment, forming an effective market, promoting the development of division of labor, and improving the technology, information and scale benefits of industries, so industrialization can promote the formation and development of cities. There is a close relationship between industrialization and urbanization. The two social processes of urbanization and industrialization are mutually causal, and both of them can lead to a "spiral" upward development, which is the general law of urbanization development in the world. However, according to the statistical bulletin of Zhanjiang's national economic and social development in 20 10, the proportion of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in 20 10 was 21.0: 41. Zhanjiang is still a big agricultural city at present. Although its industry has a considerable scale and foundation, there is still a gap with the provincial average. The industrialization level of the whole city is only in the middle and early stage, the tertiary industry has not really grown up, and its ability to absorb rural labor is limited. The almost ubiquitous "village in the city" in Zhanjiang has also caused "resistance" to urbanization to some extent. Compared with the neighborhood committees of cities, villages in cities often become a closed "village in cities", which makes the rhythm of villages in cities and cities unable to coordinate. Therefore, the reconstruction of the village in the city must break this closure, turn the farmers in the village into "shareholders" and "citizens", and integrate the village in the city into urban life as soon as possible. In addition, it is also restricted and influenced by the long-term "urban-rural dual" policy. In recent years, although the household registration system has been loosened, it is still controlling the migration of rural residents to cities, which has caused differences in employment, education, housing, medical care, welfare and insurance between urban and rural residents. It is necessary to further deepen the reform in the future. Opportunity Zhanjiang has entered the "accelerated period" of urbanization. Wei Qingquan, a professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Planning of Sun Yat-sen University, believes that the next five years to 10 will be the peak of Zhanjiang's urbanization development. Since the 1960s, Professor Wei has visited Zhanjiang many times and knows Zhanjiang very well. He believes that from the overall development trend of Zhanjiang, the rapid economic growth driven by major industrial projects and the increase in employment and consumption population will bring the peak of Zhanjiang's urbanization development. According to experts' analysis, accelerating urbanization is an objective requirement of Zhanjiang's economic and social development and an important symbol of modernization, which will contribute to the transformation of economic growth mode. Cities are the basic space for modern economic activities, the basis for establishing the relationship between modern production and consumption, and the best combination of capital, technology, talents and information. Different from rural economy with natural economic characteristics, market economy is closely related to urban development. Commodity distribution centers, trade centers and financial centers must be built on the basis of cities, and economic internationalization can only rely on cities. In addition, accelerating urbanization is an objective requirement for comprehensively improving people's living standards and quality. Urban economy not only provides workers with jobs with higher labor productivity, but also provides Zhanjiang residents with more colorful consumer products and services, so it is conducive to improving the employment and consumption level of the population, providing a better foundation and more space for social and cultural development, and creating better conditions for improving people's material and spiritual life. At the same time, accelerating the process of urbanization is also conducive to expanding domestic demand, enhancing the driving force of economic growth, and changing residents' consumption habits and consumption patterns. The transformation of rural population into urban residents will help to eliminate the "consumption gap" and expand the total social demand. The process of urbanization will create a large number of employment opportunities and gradually solve the problem of farmers' way out. Only when the peasants' way out is solved can agriculture be operated on a large scale and developed in depth, and the rural economy can have great development and qualitative change. "This is a responsibility and a must!" Ding Song, director of the Tourism and Real Estate Research Center of Shenzhen Comprehensive Development Research Institute, said that the task given to Zhanjiang by the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government is to "strive to be the vanguard of the revitalization and development of western Guangdong". If we want to become the center of urban agglomeration in western Guangdong and Beibu Gulf, accelerating urbanization is an essential link. The experience of world urbanization shows that urban development follows the growth curve, and the urbanization process is relatively slow in the early stage of urbanization; When urbanization reaches 30%, the process of urbanization will be obviously accelerated; Until the level of urbanization reaches 70%, the pace of urbanization will slow down. It can be said that Zhanjiang "urbanization train" is already on the road and is gradually accelerating! Urbanization rate in Zhanjiang: The so-called "urbanization rate" in the central region refers to the proportion of urban population to the total population (including agriculture and non-agriculture). Central cities, counties (cities, districts) and towns are all included in the urban construction plan, and urban construction extends to townships, neighborhood committees and village committees, realizing the "three links" of water, electricity and roads, which can objectively reflect the urbanization process. As for the horizontal ratio of "urbanization rate" in Guangdong cities, Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Statistics published a special statistical analysis report as early as 2004. At that time, the urbanization rate data of some prefecture-level cities in Guangdong were as follows: Shenzhen 92.46% Zhuhai 85.48% Guangzhou 83.79% Foshan 75.06% Shantou 67.00% Zhongshan 60.67% Dongguan 60.000.