ABSTRACT
Urbanization has drawn great attention in recent years, It’s a hot topic of
academic discussion. However, the existing urbanization for the studies often
overlooked the impact of urbanization on the economic growth. The role of the
relevant theory and empirical analysis is rare too. China's urbanization has become the
world's future economic development to promote the active force. As the first city of
China, Shanghai’s development is important and typical. Therefore, the study of how
to take the economic development of Shanghai as an engine to produce maximum
economic benefits is a far-reaching research.
This paper analyzes from an economic point to view the economic benefits of
urbanization in China, and take Shanghai, the country's most economically developed
and highest level of urbanization city as an object of study. According to theoretical
and empirical research this paper analyzes the mechanism of Shanghai’s urbanization
and focuses on the impacting factors of Shanghai’s urbanization economic benefits.
Take the process of problem’s issues, analysis and solution, this paper makes
suggestions to maximum the economic benefits of Shanghai’s urbanization.
Firstly, this article details the background of the research topic, source, meaning,
content, methods, characteristics and innovation, and overviews the relevant literature
to sort out the theoretical background and evidence of this research. Secondly, based
on the review of the process of Shanghai’s urbanization and the definition of relevant
indicators the paper lays the basis for empirical research. Thirdly, according the
relevance analysis of the urbanization and economic efficiency in several foreign cities,
China and Shanghai, this paper shows Shanghai has close positive correlation between
them. Then, this paper selects various factors which affect the economic benefits of
urbanization of Shanghai and build a model to analyze. and the result is the economic
benefits of Shanghai’s urbanization is mainly affected by industrial structure,
employment structure, foreign capital utilization, and government investment .Finally,
based on the above conclusions, the paper makes relevant policy recommendations in
order to play the greatest degree of economic efficiency of Shanghai’s urbanization
and make Shanghai as an international metropolis.
Key Word :Urbanization, Economic benefit, Industry structure,
Government investment, Foreign capital utilization