ABSTRACT
This chapter examines dual-track urbanization in China, consisting of spontaneous urbanization and state-sponsored urbanization. The chapter first develops a consistent interpretive framework of urbanization in pre-reform and post-reform China. The key components in the framework include the mode of industrialization, central and local states, urban and rural economies, urban and rural citizens, the hukou system and global linkages. Dynamic changes in these components and their interactions drive the urbanization process in China. The chapter then examines how each of the two tracks of urbanization contributed to the urbanization process that occurred in China between 1982 and 2000.
