Hirple and trouble: Agglomerated dilemma of small towns in China´s eastern developed areas, an example of Zhejiang province

China´s rural population an employment is at the intersection of two major trends: speeding aging and accelerating urbanization. Inadequate urbanization with excessive aging makes population agglomeration of many small towns in China´s eastern developed areas hirple and trouble. The impact of economic restructuring, sustained fertility decline, start of decreasing infloating labor increment, makes most of eastern developed small towns lack population concentration effect, stagnating or even decline in the size of the total population. Aim at the dilemma, with the example of Zhejiang province and its 12 samples located in Hangzhou area, this paper discussed the sustainability and effectiveness of small towns´ population concentration and influencing factor which might has long been ignored in the study of their problem. Speeding aging brings about disurbanization and reurbanization, and the spatial layout of the urban system accelerates to step into disequilibrium gathering. More and more villiges in sample towns dispearing, and more and more small towns following, at the same time, polarization effect of regional metropolitans has being further strengthened. Small towns is entering an era of merging and restructuring. Government-oriented small town´s concentrated mode is quite difficult to arrive at their expected urbanization level. Due to unsustainable government investment and severe one-child control, the effect population concentration is weakening. While the impact has not yet caught the attention of many local governments. Upgrading small towns into the sub-centers of medium-sized cities requires adequate investment. With the asset bubble of China´s large and medium-sized cities extended to the small towns, too high price of the real estate market is actually crowding out local farmers into small towns because the threshold has become more high. Chinese government should pay attention to the negative impact of low population growth on the small town pop- lation agglomeration and adjust the current family planning policy as soon as possible, and efficient public service responsed to population aging in small town areas has become more and more urgent.