Study on Urbanization Level of Shanxi Province

摘要

As a fundamental way to coordinate the integration of urban and rural areas, Urbanization symbolizes a country's modernization and social and economic development level. The urbanization of Shanxi Province is below the average level of China and has low quality. Therefore the method of measuring the urbanization level of Shanxi Province is important as well as fully understanding the current situation and existing problems of the urbanization in Shanxi Province. The article evaluates the current situation of urbanization in Shanxi Province from the perspective of urbanization rate, economic development condition, people's living conditions and infrastructure conditions by using principal component analysis. The results show that the quality of urbanization in Shanxi Province is low and the structure of urbanization is inappropriate. In the end, some suggestions are put forward for these specific problems.