China underwent dramatic economy development during the past three decade years, the process of urbanization is one of the most important one, the success of reformation and policy in China fully reflected in the process of urbanization. In such a government-oriented country like China, the policy factor plays more important role on urbanization. This article compares and contrasts the national urbanization policy during Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao periods, focusing on continuities and differences during the tenure of the two party leaders, because the urbanization policy of these two periods not only reflects the consistency of the general policy but also the changing of the understanding of the specific content of urbanization. Because in the policy process, the important elements include the actors and their roles in public policy, the models favor to understand the way policy work. Also the policy tools which are elements in policy design that causes agents or targets to do something hopefully in advance of the policy. This article mainly consists of a review of the main policies of the two periods, a comparison of the two periods from the following aspects: major development aims, major development actors, major development strategies, major development tools, major development model and population migration. And then tries to answer is what factors continued across both periods and represented longer trends in Chinese policy that are likely to continue into the future versus what factors varied with short-term leadership policy choices.
I. Introduction
II. Urbanization Theory
III. Policy Analysis of the Two Periods
Ⅳ. Conclusion
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