Analysis about the relationship between county urbanization and economy growth in Shandong Province

This article takes 31 county level cities in Shandong Province as sample, carrying on empirical analysis about the relationship between county urbanization and economic growth through backward regression method. The result indicates the most important factor which promotes county economy growth is the development of secondary industry; the population urbanization factor has not entered regression equation, which indicates it is not significant to county economy growth; the coefficient of built-up district area factor is negative, which shows county urbanization in Shandong province exists blind city area expansion and extensive growth. The result also indicates that county population urbanization is mainly driven by industrialization and resource consumption, while economy growth rate and built-up district area make less contribution to population urbanization.