An Analysis on the Lag of China's Urbanization and a Primary Prospect of its Future

China's urbanization level is much lower than the average level of that in the worldCompared with the economic development and the industrialization level, the situation is more seriousIt is not only due to historic reasons, but also due to realistic reasonsAs a whole, it can be summed up to these aspects: urbancountry divided dualistic management institution of registered residence, the industry developing policy which emphasizes heavy industry,the lagged agricultural development level, scalecontroll oriented guideline of city planning,increment of laid off workers during the economic system reform, and the differentiated family planning policyToday, the fundamental driving force of the urbanization is the tremendous real income disparity between urban and countryWith the entry of WTO, the relationship between China and world is more and more intimateThe universal law of urbanization begins to react on ChinaFrom 1999, the accelerating period of urbanization has been comingAs the economic system reform goes deeply, the urbanization level in China will be bound to have a big leap in the next ten to twenty yearsBased on the detailed analysis of the urbanization actuality and the corresponding reasons, this paper makes a primary prospect of China's urbanization in the future