Urbanization, also known as urbanization, refers to the historical process that a country or region gradually changes from a traditional rural society dominated by agriculture to a modern urban society dominated by non-agricultural industries such as industry and service industry with the development of social productive forces, the progress of science and technology and the adjustment of industrial structure.

The concept of urbanization is also different. Demography defines urbanization as the process of transforming rural population into urban population, while from the perspective of geography, urbanization is the process of transforming rural or natural areas into urban areas.

In economics, urbanization is defined from the perspective of economic model and mode of production. In ecology, the process of urbanization is the evolution of ecosystem, and sociologists define urbanization from the perspective of social relations and organizational change.

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Urbanization is a comprehensive process, in which land is the key factor. Throughout the process of urbanization in China, whether it is the population gathering under the guidance of early policies, the population explosion caused by the prosperity of township enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises after the reform and opening up, or the exploration of diversified urbanization models today, the cycle of "land acquisition-compensation-demolition" cannot be avoided in solving the land problem.

Roaring bulldozers leveled village after village, and rows of high-rise buildings became denser and denser. It is understood that in recent years 10, more than 900,000 natural villages in China disappeared in the process of urbanization, which means that 80 to 10 villages are erased from the map every day.

In the name of urbanization, some urban decision makers have no scruples and no mercy, planning many fertile fields in the suburbs into real estate projects and razing many villages with profound cultural connotations.

Of course, demolition did make many villagers rich overnight, but at the same time, there were some rude behaviors such as land interest disputes, forced demolition and forced upstairs. The solution to these problems is that the urbanization of China must leap from high-speed to high-quality development.

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People's Daily Online-People's Daily Online Comments: Urbanization is not a "village destruction" movement.