Urbanization is a basic trend of development of modern
society, is also a kind of inevitable trend. However, you
need to go beyond the traditional urbanization areas to
understand the urbanization. The mode of traditional
urbanization is mainly to population aggregation toward
urban, while rural is beginning to depression. The key
goal of the new-type urbanization strategy is to achieve
the integration of urban and rural development. To realize
the goals of integration of urban and rural development,
the key problem to be solved is the difference between
urban and rural areas, between agriculture and industry
and the pattern of urban and rural partition. The
main cause of these problems lies in the institutional
arrangement, so the main way of new-type urbanization
is to through system innovation.
In general, urbanization promoted the rural development,
but also brought with problems of governance. The
process of urbanization is accompanied by the movement
of population. This large-scale population flow not only
changed the traditional concept of farmers living, but
also changed the ecology of rural society. Therefore,
with the development of urbanization, it is still under big
challenges in many developing countries rural government
development. This article focuses on the rural governance
development in the context of the new-type urbanization
in Tanzania and China. Since establishment of SinoTanzania
diplomatic relation in 1964, the two countries
have continued to have an excellent outstanding friendship
and strong international relation which Tanzania become a
big counterpart of China in Africa. This paper will discuss
the rural governance system in Tanzania and also compare
with China. Furthermore, it will discuss on how Chinese
government contribute in rural government in Tanzania
and the development project in the context of the newtype
urbanization. This overview project will show the
development support of Chinese government not only to
Tanzania but also to other African countries as well.