Rural industrialization in China

Abstract

Rural industry is the most dynamic sector in China today. The rural reform carried out in 1978 has opened a new chapter for China's rural areas. In accordance, rural industrialization has embarked on a fast track to success.

As a research assistant in China Development Bank, I attend one project with the objective of providing better transportation facilities to the inland rural areas and furthermore making these areas one of the key areas for rural industrialization. During my practicum, I was mainly be tasked to work with a research team from Ministry of Agriculture to examine the main features characterized with rural industrialization. This work is the preliminary market research. The objective of this research is to provide the complexities and dynamics of China's rural industrialization as well as to explore the determinants of the rapid development of rural industrialization. As the quantitative analysis correlate with the rural industrialization is wanting, the research is based on the documentary analysis. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)