Study on regional differentiation of development of small towns in China.

选取江苏、河南和四川三省作为研究区域，分别代表小城镇发展最发达、中等发达和欠发达地区。对三个地区的各种统计、地方地名和地图进行了分析，并在江苏和河南两省进行了实地工作。调查结果如下：(1)小城镇人口及其行政区域的增长在江苏最为明显，河南较为明显，四川较少。(2)建成区从小城镇的核心沿主干道发展，有时会带来独立的工业用地。3)新开发的建成区由新的购物街、行政转角、新的工厂和员工住所组成。4)建成区扩大的主要驱动力是东部地区本地企业的发展和西部地区地方政府的商店型住宅建设。5)在城镇办理暂住证和户籍手续逐年便利。城市人口登记的优点目前还没有得到充分的评价。6)地方企业由集体转为私营。因此，地方企业与地方政府之间的关系变得更加间接。小城镇的市场专门从事食品交易，其他商品在私人商店出售，在那里增长迅速。城镇的道路和通讯设施等基础设施有了很大改善，但由于垃圾增多和水污染，环境状况变得更糟。

Jiangsu, Henan and Sichuan provinces were selected as the study areas, which represent most, moderately and less developed regions concerning the development of small towns. Many kinds of statistics, local gazetteers and maps are analyzed for three regions, and field works were conducted in Jiangsu and Henan provinces.The findings of the investigation are as follows ;1)Increase of population of small towns themselves and their administrative areas is most obvious in Jiangsu, moderately in Henan, and less in Sichuan.2)Built-up areas have developed from cores of the small towns along trunk roads and sometimes brought detached estates for industrial purpose.3)Newly developed built-up areas are composed of new shopping streets, administrative corners, new factories and dwellings for their employees.4)Main driving force for enlargement of built-up areas is development of local enterprises in Eastern regions, and construction of shop-type houses conducted by local government in Western regions.5)To get the certificate of temporary residence and the census registration in town areas has been easier year by year. The merit of urban census registration is not so much appraised now.6)Local enterprises have been converted from collective sector to private one. So the relationship between local enterprises and local government has become more indirect.7)Markets in the small towns have been specialized in trading of food, and the other goods are sold at private shops increasing rapidly there.8)Infrastructure such as roads and communication facilities in the towns has been much improved, but environmental conditions has Brown worse because of more refuse and water pollution.