Costs and Strategies on Urbanization of Chinese Megacities’ Rural Areas Based on a Case Study of Beijing

Wei Houkai 1 and Chen Xueyuan 1,2

1 Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, China
2 Rural Economic Research Center of Beijing Municipality, Beijing, China

Abstract:  As urbanization expands into the suburbs of Chinese cities, the conversion of farmers into citizens with urban social protection is becoming an important issue facing Chinese megacities. Taking Beijing as an example, this paper has calculated the one-off urbanization cost of farmers in China and arrived at the results of 500,000 yuan per person for urbanization of centralized target regions in the suburb and 200,000 yuan per person for urbanization of scattered target regions in the exurb. This paper considers that a diversified cost sharing mechanism should be put into place for the step-by-step urbanization of farmers. In addition, policy recommendations are proposed regarding the functional transformation of collective economic organizations, eradication of the urban-rural divide, enhancement of land system innovation and policy improvements for urbanization of rural residents.

Keywords: megacities, urbanization, urbanization of farmers, cost of urbanization

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