This paper examines dual-track urbanisation
in China, consisting of spontaneous
urbanisation and state-sponsored
urbanisation. The paper first develops a
consistent interpretative framework of
urbanisation in pre-reform and post-reform
China. The key components in the framework
include the mode of industrialisation, central
and local states, urban and rural economies,
urban and rural citizens, the hukou system
and global linkages. Dynamic changes in
these components and their interactions drive
the urbanisation process in China. The paper
then examines how each of the two tracks of
urbanisation contributed to the urbanisation
process that occurred in China between 1982
and 2000.