在经济全球化的背景下,城市群的形成壮大与社会经济发展密切相关。特别是在当今的网络社会和信息化时代,城市群在一个国家现代化发展过程中,其重大的历史地位与作用越来越明显。改革开放30多年以来,我国的城市与城市组团发生了巨大变化,城市群形成发育与时俱进,不断壮大,集聚能力越来越强,总体发展趋势越来越明显。城市群区域已成为我国各地区经济社会发展的重要核心区、产业高度集聚区、经济增长区和财富积聚以及科技文化的创新地区,特别是在城市群区内逐渐形成了一些国际性的大城市,中心城市的作用越来越明显;城市群发展已成为我国当前加快城镇化的重大举措,也是推进我国城镇化、现代化的主体形态,将建设成为我国可持续发展的示范区和对外开放合作的先行实验区。
In the context of economic globalization,the growth of urban agglomerations is closely related to the socio-economic development.Especially in the network society and information age,the importance of urban agglomeration is more and more evident.After 30 years of reform and opening-up,Chinese cities and urban clusters have changed greatly,and urban agglomerations have developed with the times,gathering ability growth and overall development quickly.Urban agglomerations have become an important core area,industrial highly concentrated area,economic growth area and wealth accumulation area.Especially in the urban agglomerations,a number of international cities have evolved,and the cities are playing an increasingly important role.The development of urban agglomerations has become major initiative to speed up urbanization,and it is also the main form of promoting urbanization and modernization.Urban agglomerations will be demonstration areas for sustainable development and first-experiment area of opening-up cooperation.