主要分析了我国“城市”、“城市人口”、“城市规模”、“城镇化”与“城市化”等一系列基本概念的混乱.提出我国城市研究的第一科学问题是基本概念的正确性.以强调规范城市基本概念的重要性。
The paper analyzed a lot of confusion on China's basic urban concepts such as "urban place" , "urban population" , "urban scale" and "urbanization" . It put forward that the primary scientific issue of urban research in China is the correctness of basic urban concepts and emphasized the importance of the standardization of those concepts.