Discrimination and Clarification of Basic Terms of China's Urbanization and Coordinated Urban and Rural Development

This paper aims to discriminate among some basic terms which are often abused in urbanization research and policy-making for better understanding.The urbanization is a natural and universal process in human history while a country transforms from a traditional rural society to a modern urban one.The ultimate goal of urbanization is the urban and rural integration.The new socialist countryside construction and coordinated urban and rural development are both developmental strategies for solving conflicts in dual structured China following a traditional urbanization pattern.The two strategies help promote new urbanization.Traditional urbanization,unhealthy urbanization,incomplete urbanization and semi-urbanization are synonymous terms used for describing the urbanization process of China in the past 30 years.New urbanization,healthy urbanization,complete urbanization and normal urbanization are also synonyms for describing the healthy and scientific urbanization of China in the future.