Reasons for Urbanization in Coastal Areas of China in the Late Qing Dynasty

1. Another important sign of modern urbanization in China is the growth of urban population, especially in the big cities in coastal areas. Due to the invasion of western capitalism, cities along the Yangtze River have become new industrial and commercial centers, and the emerging industries and social space of cities have provided people with a lot of employment and livelihood opportunities. As a result, the rural population continued to flood into cities, resulting in the phenomenon of urban and rural migration in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China and the rapid growth of the population in big cities. Urbanization is largely manifested as immigration. With the modern industrial revolution and commercial revolution, there has been an unprecedented population movement in many parts of the world.

2. The change of urban social structure is an important symbol of social change and development. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, China urban society experienced the disintegration of the old socio-economic system and the drastic changes in the birth of the new socio-economic system. Industrialization has fundamentally changed the social structure of cities, and the change of social structure has gradually expanded from the industrial field to the commercial and cultural fields. Judging from the development law of modern cities, urban modernization and industrialization often go hand in hand. With the process of urban modernization, urban industry began to appear and developed rapidly, becoming the main symbol of urban modernization.