Abstract:

In the process of economic transformation in China, the government has played an indispensible role in economic structure adjustment and urbanization. Since the reform of their relation with the central government in 1978 and in 1994, China’s local governments have adopted different policies accordingly. The economic development pattern gradually transits from the one dominated by the central government to the one dominated by the local government, thus bringing about the corresponding alteration in industrial structure and urbanization in China. This paper takes the output and portion of the tertiary industries and employment rate as indicators of economic structure and utilizes the data from 1952 to 2011 in the China Statistical Yearbook of 2012. Through an analysis of alteration of industrial structure and urbanization level caused by different government policies, this passage explores to establish a theoretical framework of the influence of government policies on industrial structure and urbanization, and brings a new angle for the study of the supportive function of industrial structure to urbanization.

Key words: industrial structure, urbanization, government policies, the economic pattern dominated by the central govern-ment, the economic pattern dominated by the local government