中国城镇化总体布局及未来战略构想_英文_.pdf

RESEARCH 1 The General Layout of Urbanization in China and Strategic Ideas for the Future Ma Xiaohe and Hu Yongjun Abstract: During the thirty years and more of reform and opening up, urbanization in China has played an important role in pushing forward economic growth. The country’s development calls for speeding up the urbanization process so that it shifts from breakthroughs in the layout of urbanization to its all-round advancement, establishing the overall layout of China’s urban system from the three dimensions of scalar, spatial and industrial reorganization. Key words: urbanization; strategic ideas; layout of the urban system A U N f o r e c a s t s a y s t h a t C h i n a ’s transformed from a fenced-in urban pattern urbanization level will attain 53.2% based on administrative divisions to one of by 2020, with an urban population of “concentration without congestion” with around 7.6 hundred million. According city cluster as the main body.1 to expert estimates, the country’s level of urbanization could increase by 10 I. Problems with the Present Structural percentage points in the five to ten Layout of China’s Urban System years to come, or by 15 percentage points if substantial progress is made 1. The present state of the structural with institutional reform and policy layout of China’s urban system readjustment. This would bring the level After thirty years and more of reform and of urbanization to 60–65%. Either way, opening up, China has now developed the process of urbanization in China will an initial multi-layered urban system acc