适应集中，提高质量——论我国目前城市化发展的方向

近20年来，我国城市化进程加快，小型城市激增，约占90％。小城市的兴起，转移了大批农村剩余劳动力，减轻了大中城市劳动力市场的压力，但小城市比起大城市有其自身难以克服的局限性与不足之处。主要表现为规模效益和聚集效益差。今后，中国的城市化应进入一个调整功能 、适度集中的新阶段，更多地强调环境和质量。

Appropriate Concentration and High Quality --On the trend of urbanization in China

In the recent years, urbanization in our country has been sped up, with a rapid increase of small sized cities, taking up 90% of the total numbers of cities in China. The prosperity of these small sized cities has absorbed the surplus work force in the rural areas and alleviated the pressures in large and medium sized cities. Compared with large or medium-sized cities, small cities have their potential limitations as well as disadvantage difficult to surmount, which mainly lie in low profit with respect to scale and accumulation of resources. In the future, therefore, the urbanization in China should enter a new stage of function regulation and appropriate concentration, with more emphasis on environment and quality.