城乡二元经济结构一般是指以社会化大生产为主要特点的城市经济和小规模生产为主要特点的农村经济并存的经济结构。这种不平衡在发展中国家的经济结构有突出的矛盾,也是导致这些国家相对贫困和落后的重要原因之一。在发展中国家的现代化进程中,很大程度上是城乡二元经济结构向现代经济结构的转换过程。 The dual economic structure of urban and rural areas generally refers to the coexistence of the rural economy with the main features of urban economy and small-scale production characterized by socialized mass production as the economic structure. This imbalance has prominent contradictions in the economic structure of developing countries and is also one of the major causes of the relative poverty and backwardness in these countries. In the course of the modernization of developing countries, the conversion of urban-rural dual economic structure to modern economic structure is largely a process.