中文摘要：

中国城市群是中国未来经济发展格局中最具活力和潜力的核心地区,城市群的真正形成与发育始于20世纪80年代的改革开放初期,历经80年代的发育萌芽阶段、90年代快速成长阶段和21世纪前10 a的持续发展阶段,共三大阶段。城市群形成发育带有强烈的政府主导性,主要是国家及地方宏观调控政策和区域发展政策发挥作用的结果,体现在国家宏观调控政策的导向性和重点区域发展政策的倾向性两大方面。具体表现为,＂六五＂计划提出地区域协作和经济区政策开启了中国城市群建设的序幕,＂七五＂计划提出地三级经济区网络政策搭建了中国城市群建设的初步框架＂八五＂计划提出地横向联合与城乡统筹政策注入了中国城市群建设的一体化内容＂九五＂计划提出地区域协调发展政策推动了中国中西部地区城市群的形成发育＂十五＂计划实施地城镇化战略指明了中国城市群建设的基本方向＂十一五＂规划首次把城市群作为推进城镇化的主体空间形态,奠定了中国城市群建设的空间格局。与此同时,针对处在不同地区、不同类型和不同发育程度的城市群,国家相继因地制宜地实施了无数项差异化扶持政策,这些政策有力地推动着中国城市群朝着健康稳定的方向持续发展。

英文摘要：

Urban agglomerations are the most dynamic and potential core areas for the future economic development of China.As the key and optimal development zones of major function oriented zoning in China,urban agglomerations play the roles of strategic support points,growth poles and core nodes in national productivity layout.To begin with,the formation and development of Chinese urban agglomerations indeed dates back to the initial stage of China′s reform and opening-up in the 1980s.It has gone through three stages,namely the embryonic development stage in the 1980s,the rapid growth stage in the 1990s and the sustained development stage in the 2010s.Moreover,there are distinct government-led characteristics for the formation and development of Chinese urban agglomerations,mainly resulted from national and local macro-regulation policies and regional development policies.They involve in both the guidance of national macro-regulation policies and the propensity of key regions′development policies.Specifically,the related supportive policies and their implementation impact on the formation and development of Chinese urban agglomerations from the 6th Five-Year Plan to the 11th Five-Year Plan can be concluded as follows.Firstly,the policy about regional cooperation and economic zone in the 6th Five-Year Plan is to be the start the construction of Chinese urban agglomerations.Secondly,the policy about three levels of economic zone network in the 7th Five-Year Plan builds the preliminary framework for the construction of Chinese urban agglomerations.Thirdly,the policy about horizontal alliance and balancing urban and rural development in the 8th Five-Year Plan puts forward the integration outlook to the construction of Chinese urban agglomerations.Fourthly,the policy to promote balanced development among regions in the 9th Five-Year Plan drives the formation and development of urban agglomerations in the central and western regions of China.Fifthly,the urbanization strategy in the 10th Five-Year Plan points out the overall