中文摘要：

多层次城镇化提供了一个分析转型期中国区域城乡发展特征和发展动力的综合视角,它强调在城乡系统中,用不同的空间层次去解构地区的城镇化过程,以便更清晰地洞察城镇化的特征和发展动力。以山东省淄博市为例,围绕跨省市的城镇化、组群式城市间的城镇化、本地区的城镇化、基层社区的城镇化等方面探讨了多层次城镇化的发展特征,提出以血缘、地缘和商缘关系,经济落差、中心城区规模效应、县城吸引力,以及多种“自下而上”的力量构成淄博多层次城镇化的发展动力。基于淄博的经验,概括了多层次城镇化的发展模式,认为随着转型期中国市场经济的完善,在用单一模式难以反映和概括新时期区域城镇化发展特征的前提下,应强调城镇化发展的多元化和多层次性。

英文摘要：

Multi-level urbanization provides us a viewpoint or method to analyze the characteristics and mechanisms of regional development and urban-rural development in China in the transitional period. Analysis of multi-level urbanization lays emphasis on disassemb- ling the process of regional urbanization with different spatial levels, in order to indicate the characteristics and mechanisms of the development of urbanization clearly. Taking Zibo city of Shandong province as an example, the paper provides a theoretical framework of the analysis of multi-level urbanization, including urbanization of trans-city and trans-municipality, that of group cities, that of this locality, and that of local communities. With the framework of multi-level urbanization, it is easy to find out the features of the develop- ment of Zibo＇s urbanization in the transitional period. The authors find that the relationship of consanguinity, location and business, the gap of economic development, the effect of scale, the attraction of county seat, and the forces from bottom to top constitute the driving forces of the development of multi-level urbanization in Zibo. Based on the experience of Zibo, the authors put forward the model of the development of multi-level urbanization, and think that with the development of a market economy in China in the transitional period, we should emphasize the pluralistic concept and the multi-levels of the development of urbanization, for it is more and more difficult to generalize the features of regional urbanization with a single model in the newest period.