The comparative analysis of urbanization affecting factors among the coastal provinces in eastern China in the transition period
我国东部沿海省区城镇化水平影响因素的空间差异

Although eastern China has been keeping a high speed of economic development and urbanization as a whole since China's reform and opening-up,each province in coastal area possesses different characters in the process of urbanization and its affecting factors in the transition period.On the basis of defining the factors affecting the urbanization process on the new background in the coastal province in China's transition period,this paper examined the different main factors affecting every coastal province by factor analysis using the economic and social statistic data in 2000.The index and data include not only the traditional factors such as economy and industrial structure,but also the new factors such as floating population and foreign direct investment in the context of reform and opening-up.The result obtained show that,the main factors influencing the process of urbanization are different among coastal provinces.The coastal provinces have presented different types of urbanization characters in affecting factors: the urbanization process of Guangdong province was mainly affected by floating factors in transition period such as floating labors;the urbanization process of Zhejiang province and Shanghai-Jiangsu was mainly driven by the integrative increasing of economy;Shandong province showed a traditional type of urbanization mechanism as driven by industrialization.The difference of urbanization affecting factors among coastal provinces indicated that the provinces in China's coastal area had begun to show diversification in urbanization process in the transition period.