Author(s)

Cheng Qi

Corresponding Author

Cheng Qi

Abstract

To study the impacts of agricultural input, agricultural output, rural social development and agricultural sustainable development on urbanization, e.g. population urbanization, economic urbanization, social urbanization and land urbanization, this paper selected statistics from 1995 to 2012, employed canonical correlation analysis method, diagnosed the correlations of impact factors between agricultural modernization and urbanization and made a test of results. The results showed that agricultural input, rural social development and agricultural sustainable development have played a significant role in urbanization, while agricultural output have few impacts on urbanization; population urbanization level and economic urbanization level could be advanced by the improvement of agricultural mechanization input and rural social development level; and social urbanization level will be improved with the rising of agricultural materials input and agricultural sustainable development level; besides, the improvement of agricultural materials input will also have a promotion on land urbanization.

Keywords

Agricultural Modernization, Urbanization, Canonical Correlation Analysis, Wuhan City