进入新世纪以来,具有区际意义的城市群发展出现了多元化全方位的时空变化,合作与竞争并存,发展与制约同时存在。信息网络化、产业集群化与重大基础设施一体化日益成为人类经济活动、文化科技交流和民众居住生活的重要内容,同时也成为城市群日趋完善的新动力和新机制。科学发展观、城乡统筹、城市现代化和国际化以及人与自然环境的和谐发展等均已成为我国城市群重大发展战略和建设目标,也是加快我国城镇化现代化的重大举措。为此,对我国城市群区域内产业集聚、城乡统筹、紧凑空间组织、可持续发展等问题的发展战略与建设目标进行综合性、系统性的深入研究,将具有重大的社会实践意义与科学性的创新求索和重要的学术价值。
Globalization is a distinct characteristic of contemporary society. With the global economic integra- tion, the comprehensive spatial and temporal changes have appeared in the development of urban agglomera- tion which is of regional significance. The world is affected by accelerating, widening and deepening process- es of globalization, so the nation is no longer the only entity that affects people's life and thoughts. Cities are not isolated or close systems. Cooperation and competition as well as development and constraint coexist in urban agglomeration. Since the late 1970s urban agglomerates in regions in China such as Pearl Rover Delta Region have developed rapidly and comprehensively, and those in other regions such as the Sichuan Basin have also gradually become centralized. Small towns and villages begin to re-structure themselves into small, medium or large cities. Globalization and modernization make urbanization accelerate. Information network, industrial cluster and the major infrastructure integration become the important parts of "human economic ac- tivities", "cultural and technological exchanges", and" the people's life". They also become impetus and mechanisms which can improve the urban agglomerations. Since the early 1980s, a number of economists and geographers have advocated coordinate development of large, medium and small cities and sustainable devel- opment. The government aims to establish a harmonious society and apply the scientific outlook on develop- ment which is the major development strategies and construction goals of urban agglomeration as well as the major action to speed up the urbanization and modernization. Therefore, the authors conduct this research comprehensively and systematically on the development strategies and construction goals of the urban ag- glomeration.