中文摘要：

中小城镇发展是中国新型城镇化的关键。不仅可以有效化解“大城市病”和实现就地就近农业人口市民化。还可以极大带动投资和消费需求，实现经济的良性发展。中国有2万多个中小城镇．这些城镇的发展条件、发展环境、发展阶段和发展需求存在较大差异。它们应采用怎样的发展模式应是未来需要充分考虑的关键问题。基于此，本文从主导中小城镇发展的核心驱动要素出发，梳理出新的发展阶段中国中小城镇发展的十种驱动要素或驱动力．并对每种驱动要素或驱动力的表现和特征作了简要分析，希望对中小城镇未来的发展模式选择有所借鉴。

英文摘要：

The development of medium and small urban settlements is the key issue for China＇s new urbanization. Not only can it effectively resolve the ＂big-city disease＂, accomplishing the goal of the agricultural population transformation in the vicinity, promoting rural-urban integration, building a beautiful China and beautiful village, but also it can greatly stimulate the demand of investment and consumption to cope with the global financial crisis and economic recession. China has more than 20000 medium and small urban settlements. Their development conditions, development environment, development stage and development needs of these towns are quite different. Which kind of development modes should these towns adopt？ It should be a key problem to be resolved in the future. Based on this, the paper sums up the ten kinds of development mode of small towns, including labor agglomeration mode, land dependence mode, capital driven mode, resources dependence mode, market driven mode, industrial driven mode, policy driven mode, information agglomeration mode, knowledge driven mode and technology driven mode. And it interprets these modes, hoping to give reference to select development mode of the small towns in the future.