城镇化问题是当代中国社会经济发展重大的综合性课题,涉及到国民经济如何协调发展,是达到一个新的现代化和谐社会发展的根本问题。当前我国城镇化的高速发展,全面推动了我国经济和社会的巨大发展,并在很大程度上改善了城乡人民的生活。然而,近10多年来(1996~2009年),我国城镇化脱离了循序渐进的原则,超出了正常的城镇化发展轨道,在进程上属于"急速城镇化"。有不少学者认为我国的城市化出现了"大跃进"和"冒进"的现象,其表现为人口城镇化率虚高、水土资源过度消耗,我国许多大中小城市与农林交通建设大规模占地、毁地等现象还在继续,生态环境受到比较严重的污染、破坏。为此,我国的城镇化问题应当按照科学发展观的要求,进行实事求是、符合国情的科学思维。

Urbanization is an important comprehensive problem of social and economic development in contemporary China, involving fundamental issue of how to realize the goal of new and modern harmonious social development according to coordinated development of national economy, and sustainable development problem of rational utilization and long-term protection of resources and environment. After more than three decades of reform and opening up, socio-economic development has maintained a new situation of the rapid advance. Brilliant achievements in comprehensive national power, industrialization, urbanization and urban-rural integration have been obtained in China. Urbanization is not only the concept of historical development, but also the historical process of the objective laws of industrialization and social development. With the unprecedented advance of urbanization in the motherland, urbanization comprehensively promotes the tremendous economic and social development, and largely improves living standards and housing conditions of urban and rural residents. However, in recent 10 years (1996-2009), urbanization development has derogated from the principle of gradual and orderly progress beyond the normal track of urbanization development, which is called "the rapid urbanization" in the process. Recently, many scholars believes that urbanization in China shows "Great Leap Forward" and "Rash Advance". The main manifestation is the empty high speed of urbanization development, the excessive consumption of water and land resources, large-scale land occupation and land damage in the process of traffic construction in rural areas, medium-sized and large cities, and serious damage and pollution to natural eco-environment. Based on the above-mentioned situations, we suppose that urbanization in China should follow the requirements of scientific development view and think in a scientific perspective with the idea of seeking truth from facts and considering the special situation of China after our research and comprehensive analysis over the past years.