Since the last decade the central government endeavors to promote large scale of urbanization in China.
Lots of new urban towns and districts are taking shape. Outline of the 12th Five-year Plan released by the central
government points out that the new towns and districts are to be regulated. But few researches are considering
the new towns and districts especially in the spatial distributive pattern and status in China. Given this situation
this paper, after sorting out the world-wide research and development of new urban towns and districts, gives
definitions of broad and narrow meanings. Based on the broad meaning definition, the database of new towns and
districts in China is established. This paper then conducts a preliminary analysis of the new towns and districts.
Then the two-step work plan and the advices are also proposed to further improve the research and practice of its
kind in China.
LIU Xin-jing (刘新静), YU Wei* (于 炜), WANG Xiao-jing* (王晓静), SHENG Rong (盛 蓉)，ZHANG Shu-cheng (张书成), LIU Shi-lin (刘士林)
. Research on Newly Urbanized Towns and Districts in China[J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University(Science), 2014
, 19(2)
: 251
-256
.
DOI: 10.1007/s12204-014-1496-4
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