Connotations,Factors and Educational Functions of People-centered Urbanization

Development strategy of the new urbanization in China is people-centered.The connotations of people-centered urbanization are profound,with its emphasis on the balanced development of urban and rural residents and the common spirits of cities and countrysides in terms of its value orientation.Its core task is the transformation of peasant workers into citizens,and its breakthrough lies in the adjustment of the interest allocation pattern.The transformational mechanism should be integrative,rather than separate.There are five interdependent factors of people-centered urbanization:material resources,lifestyle,behaviors pattern,capacity for work,and concepts.Education is the vital means of peopleoriented urbanization.Basic education should take on the responsibility of the urbanization of the future people,and endeavor to develop among children the idea of the community of town and village.Vocational education should innovate the mode of student cultivation on the basis of the need of professional development.Adult education should aim at the focal issues in people-centered urbanization and lay emphasis on technique and skill training to enhance peasant workers'market competitiveness.Higher education should take the advantages of its scientific research to provide advisory service for the urbanization policy-making.In addition,the people-centered urbanization not only means the urbanization of peasant workers,but also includes the transformation from morbid urbanizationto healthy urbanizationof policy makers and citizens.The promotion of the urbanization should follow the principle of complementary advantage and collaborative construction,instead of discrete construction and and magnifying the gap.