A study on measuring urbanization process drag from urban-rural digital divide in China

Informatization is a great motivity to urbanization, but urbanization process is seriously cumbered by urban-rural digital divide in China. Romer´s theory of economy growth drag is used for reference, and non-linear regression is applied to build a model of measuring the urbanization process drag from China´s urban-rural digital divide. As a research result, the formula of measuring drag is deduced. The China´s urbanization process drag is determined not only by urban-rural digital divide but also by industry structure, population diathesis and life quality. It implies that the urbanization process drag from China´s urban-rural digital divide is not an oversimplified problem of information technology permeation, but a complicated socioeconomic problem. This study can help government to make some systemic measures to use informatization to drive urbanization process.