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Information Engineering and Education Science – Zheng (Ed.)
© 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-02655-1
An empirical analysis of the relationship between
urbanization progress and economic growth
Na Tian
Qilu University of Technology, Shandong, China
ABSTRACT: The urbanization level has been on the rise in recent years, followed on one hand by
the economic growth out of the gains of the secondary industry and the tertiary industry; while on the
other hand, there arise the problems like urban-rural disparity and environmental pollution. Based on the
inverted U curve hypothesis, the present research, adopting the statistic data (from 1979 to 2011) of 27
provinces and cities in China, gives an analysis of the relationship between ...