Development and Evolution of China's Urbanization: A Case Study of Mei County in Guanzhong Area of Chinese Inland

In the context of Chinese history, the concept of "city" in ancient society appears quite early and county as one of the municipality settings almost has a history of thousands of years which carries different but important political, military and economical functions, and etc. Hence, the concept and its contents of "city", and the urban-rural relations, etc. need to be historically reviewed and discussed, so as to better understanding the diachronic development and evolution of China's urbanization procedure and its distinguishing characteristics, which will further help to think more clearly about the possible path of urbanization and guide more effectively the practice and exploration. This paper takes Mei county-a county located in the core zone of Zhou-Qin culture, which is of thousands years of history-as research object, by historically presenting its development to observe the developing stages, distinguishing characteristics and historical evolution of China's urbanization.