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Figure 4.2 Relationship between rural industrialisation and rural
income, 2000
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Rural industralisation
Note:
Industrialisation is indicated by the share of TVE employment in rural labour. Rural
ncome s per capta rural pure ncome (yuan).
Source:
Calculated from National Bureau of Statistics, 2000a, 2001.
Statistical Yearbook
of China
, China Statistics Press, Beijing.
2001, the urbanisation rate (the ratio of urban to total population) in China
reached 38 per cent, whereas it was only 26 per cent in 1990 and 19 per cent
in 1980. Improvement in the availability of rural finance will certainly help in
the development of rural industries. Nevertheless, the importance of rural
ndustralsaton n the economy s lkely to be replaced by urbansaton.
In spite of the acceleration in urban development, the rate of
urbanisation in China is still 10-20 percentage points lower than the
average of other countres at a smlar ncome level (Wang and Xa 1999).
In particular, medium and large cities are in short supply compared with
China's large population. In 2000, there were 121 million people living in
the cities of 0.5 million population and above, accounting for only 9.6 per
cent of the national population. In the less-developed west region, people
lvng n ctes of these szes only account for 5.6 per cent of the regon's
