Research on the Urban Development Process of Xizang since Its Peaceful Liberation
Different from the existing studies which focused on cities and towns in the history of Xizang and emphasized the high influence of natural geography,agricultural and animal husbandry economy,and reli-gion,this paper focuses on urban development after the peaceful liberation of Xizang,especially since the re-form and opening-up,and discusses the historical achievements in urban development in the period of social-ist modernization of new Xizang.Specifically,from the peaceful liberation to the early 1980s,the urban devel-opment was deeply influenced by the urgent tasks of local government construction and the state-planned eco-nomic system,so that a great number of county-level towns emerged.From the period of reform and opening-up to the Central Committee's Fifth Work Symposium on Xizang,the urban development was still in its initial stage.The national counterpart assistance helped promote the spatial expansion and external morphological changes of cities in Xizang,making cities show characteristics of aid.After 2010,with great achievements in e-conomic and social development and the living standards of people in Xizang,the urban development entered a new stage of acceleration.The endogenous impetus of city development was enhanced.At this time,city plan-ning promoted the large-scale modernization of cities,enabled improvement of modern urban functions,and ini-tially formed urban agglomerations,and cities have been an important driving force for Xizang's economic and social development.
XizangUrban developmentUrbanizationCounterpart assistance to Xizang