Characteristics and Trends of China's Urban Agglomeration

In the new century,China's urbanization has entered into a new stage of development and transformation from a single to an urban agglomeration.World system and network theory of the city are two hot areas in China's current urban studies.Since 1996,China's rapid urbanization phase can be divided into urban-based extension of the period of expansion and extension of the combination of expansion and content development of the cluster development.In the new era,the reform of China's urbanization has the following characteristics:urbanization trends continue to strengthen the cluster;inclusive reform objectives in the demands become more and more significant;as a regional economic growth pole,the urban agglomeration functions and demonstrates as an important new direction.