Calibrating the Equilibrium Urbanization Level under Constraint of the Resource and Environment

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According to China's typical dual-economic structure characteristics, the paper develops a general equilibrium model of urban-rural sectors through introducing the resource-environmental constraint. With the model, Jiangxi province of China is taken as a case to be calibrated, and the result shows that when the transfer level from rural population to urban sector is at a steady path, the equilibrium urbanization level z is 79.23%.

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DOI: 10.1068/a290929

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