Study on urbanization driven by market-communities: The case of Zhejiang Province
市场共同体推动下的城镇化研究——浙江省案例

Market-communities are important power of urbanization.The formation and function of traditional special markets have changed greatly and the driving mechanisms to urbanization have also transformed.The study analyzed the new formation and new driving mechanisms to urbanization of special markets by observation and substantial evidence.The conclusions are as follows: First,the existence and development of special markets are the important ways of urbanization.Second,urbanization driven by special markets has four characteristics as community characters of spatial structure,special division of urban production,small and medium-sized cities as main parts of urbanization and rapid urbanization.Third,population and industrial agglomeration are the mechanisms of urbanization driven by market-communities and the forming of a spatial compound of market-communities-production communities-regional city systems is the way of urbanization driven by market-communities.Fourth,urbanization driven by market-communities has stage characteristics.We should combine isolated special markets into market-communities and promote single product markets to synthetical product markets because of the time limitation of traditional special markets.At the same time,we should implement and perfect the strategies of industries and commerce to promote the city construction.