Dynamic Econometric Analysis of the Relationship between Urbanization and Urban Resource in Beijing City

This paper successfully builds synthesized evaluation index system of Beijing urbanization and city source, and uses principal component analysis to reasonably measure and calculate the level of comprehensive development about them from 1985 to 2008, by which empirical research is conducted about their dynamic relationship. Then it turns out that there is a kind of co-integration relationship between these two factors: the long-term monodirectional Granger Causality relationship that city source restricts urbanization development. The result showed that the present key to urbanization development of Beijing is source, thus to establish a mode that contributes to promote the source-saving urbanization, is the basic way to its sustainable development. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of RIUDS