The Significance of Developing Small Towns and New Urbanization in China

在当前大力推进新型城镇化的背景下,回顾总结著名社会人类学家费孝通先生的中国小城镇研究有重要的现实意义。费先生在实证调查的基础上,针对我国人多地少的基本矛盾和农工相辅的历史传统,提出乡村工业化及城镇化的路径选择,有三个特点:一是以“志在富民”为根本目标,探索以农民为主体的乡村工业化进程；二是以城乡一体化为导向,探索优先发展小城镇的城市化道路；三是以经济的体系化良性运行为核心,探索区域经济共同体合理布局的发展模式。

With the implementation of the new urbanization strategy in China, there is great practical significance to review the classical research on small towns and urbanization made by the famous sociologist Fei Xiaotong. First of all, based on empirical investigation and systematical analysis, Fei proposed the route of industrializing the rural regions, which took into account the basic contradictions of large population with few land, and the tradition of integrating agricultural and industrial sectors in China. In addition, Fei not only paid close attention to township enterprises development, rural population agglomeration and the calculation and analysis of small towns, but also put great emphasis on the key functions of small towns. Finally, Fei suggested that the economic community (regional cooperation on economy) of different regions ranging from agricultural regions, small towns to large, medium and small cities is the inevitable trend beyond the limit of administrative areas. This trend of regional economical cooperation resulted not only from economic globalization but also from the demands of economic and social improvement of Chinese society.

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