Lucas's Introduction

What extent can the problems of urbanization are met by a policy of sustainable development
Subtitle: What are the problems in the process of China’s urbanization? How to resolve these problems?
Introduction
Urbanization can be defined in four views of demography, geography, sociology and economics. [ref?] For demography, urbanization is the process of change from rural population into urban population. For geography, urbanization is the process of relative centralization of population in an area of the towns and cities. For sociology, urbanization is the process of rural lifestyle transformed into the city lifestyle. For economics, urbanization is the process of the change from traditional rural economy into the modern market economy. Sustainable development can also be defined in following four views: ecological sustainability, sociological sustainability, economical sustainability and technological sustainability. For ecological sustainability, sustainable development is the objectives of protecting and enhancing the capacity of production and updates in environment system. For sociological sustainability, sustainable development is the conception of improving the human life quality under the capacity of biological system. For economical sustainability, sustainable development is the conception of increasing profit without abusing nature resource. For technological sustainable, sustainable development is the conception of steering cleaner and more efficient technology and reducing the waste of energy and other natural resources. After the reform and market open in the year of 1995, China had gradually loosened original restriction of population migration, a large number of workers migrated from the western poor area to the eastern cities, which help the rapid development of urbanization in China. But because of the large quantity of population and the speed of development of economic and social insurance can not catch the step of urbanization, there are so many serious problems reveal in the process of urbanization. Firstly, pollution is extending in the cities that make the decrease of the quality of city life. Secondly, the lack of urban space leads to the high price and high pressure in the cities. Thirdly, the large increase of population makes traffic jam and high crime rate in China. So in this essay, I will focus on these problems which occur in urbanization process of China, then give my suggestions for how to resolve these problems base on the analysis of why these problems happen.

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