DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2021.v08i09.002

Pages: 368-374

Urban diseases refer to a series of acute urban problems that restrict healthy urban development in the urbanization process. As China has urbanized, many small cities have fallen into a development dilemma and even experienced a recession in their urban development. This paper examines "small city disease" in the context of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, and finds that the symptoms of "small city disease" include labor force losses, capital losses, insufficient public service resources, fewer employment opportunities, and the generalization of human feelings in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Then, this paper proposes developing endogenous superior industries, strengthening regional cooperation, promoting system and mechanism reform, and being innovation with regard to cities’ approach to urban development, in order to successfully combat the increasingly serious "small city disease".