摘　要：

中国的城镇化和现代化的重点和难点在农村，没有农村地
区的现代化，就很难真正实现全国的现代化。实现中国城镇化和现代化的一个切入点应当是促进小城镇的健康发展。未来将有近5 亿人由农村进入城镇，如果这些人口全部进入大城市和特大城市，将带来巨大的生态、经济和政治风险。然而目前中国的小城镇问题重重，缺乏吸引力，无法发挥其在人居系统中的枢纽功能。作者认为提高小城镇的建设水平，加大小城镇的辐射力和凝聚力，吸引农村人口进入小城镇是中国城镇化的重要任务。文章在分析了中国小城镇存在的各种问题及其根源的基础上，提出了小城镇生态健康发展和规划管理的一些建议。

Abstract：

The critical challenge of China’s urbanization and modernization is in rural areas. It is obvious that there will not be real modernization in China without rural modernization. It is the argument of the author that rational and healthy development of small towns is crucial to China’s urbanization owning to nearly 500 million rural to urban migrants in the next couple of decades. It will inevitably create enormous ecological, economic and social risks if all those migrants moved into large cities or metropolises. However, the present small towns in China are confronting large amount of problems. They are unable to attract people to work and live in, thus unable to provide appropriate hub function in human settlement network. The author argues that the small towns’ main tasks in the process of urbanization are to improve development standard, to increase service capability, to enlarge service catchment areas, and to attract migrants. After analyzing the existing problems and their causes, several proposals are raised for ecological and healthy development and planning management for small towns in China.

关键词：

小城镇；城镇化；创新；可持续

Keywords：

Small Town; Urbanization; Innovation; Sustainability