改革开放40年是我国城镇化发展创造世界奇迹与城市群建设取得非常显著成就的40年。40年来,我国城镇化水平翻了1.5番,超过了世界平均城镇化水平3.7个百分点,顺利完成了城镇化初期和中期的快速成长阶段,即将迈入后期成熟阶段;在数度调整与改革创新的实践中走出了一条中国特色的新型城镇化发展道路;召开了首次中央城镇化工作会议,完成了城市规模划分标准的历史性重大调整;抵御住了来自“伪城镇化”的冲击,通过“去伪存真”提高了城镇化发展质量。40年来,我国城市群的研究与发展顺利完成了从激烈的理论纷争到实践应用的历史性跨越,进入到引领全球城市群发展的21世纪新时代,城市群连续15年被纳入国家新型城镇化的空间主体,国家及国际战略地位得到快速提升,对国家城镇化和经济发展做出了不可替代的巨大贡献。展望未来,我国城镇化与城市群的发展将以改革开放40年来取得的辉煌成就为基础,继续坚定不移地实施新型城镇化战略,推进新型城镇化向高质量、高效率和高水平方向发展;继续将城市群作为国家新型城镇化的空间主体,推进城市群向高度一体化、绿色化、智慧化和国际化方向发展;继续实施乡村振兴战略,从城乡融合发展高度,合并召开中央城乡工作会议,合并编制《城乡融合发展规划》,合并实施城乡融合发展战略,推进新型城镇化与乡村振兴向同步化、融合化、共荣化方向发展,同步提升城市与乡村发展质量,让城市与乡村共同成为人人向往的美好家园。

The 40 years of reform and opening-up are also the 40 years of remarkable achievements for China's urbanization and urban agglomeration construction, which has created world miracles. Over the past 40 years, China's urbanization level has increased by 1.5 times, exceeding 3.7 percentage of the world average. It has successfully completed the rapid growth of the early and middle stages of urbanization, and is about to enter the later maturity stage. In the practice of multiple adjustments and reform and innovation, a new urbanization development path with Chinese characteristics has been developed. The first central conference on urbanization was held, and made major historic adjustments about the city scale division standard. We have resisted the impact of "pseudo-urbanization" and improved the quality of urbanization development by "eliminating the fake while preserving the real". In the past 40 years, the research and development of China's urban agglomeration have successfully completed the historic leap from fierce theoretical disputes to practical application, and entered the 21st century new era leading the development of global urban agglomeration. Urban agglomeration was incorporated into spatial subject form of new-type urbanization for 15 years in China, and national and international strategic position get rapid ascension, which has made a huge contribution to an irreplaceable for national urbanization and economic development. Looking ahead, the development of urbanization and urban agglomeration in China will be based on the brilliant achievements made in the past 40 years of reform and opening-up. We should continue to unswervingly implement the strategy of the new-type urbanization, and move to a higher quality and efficiency level. We should continue to take urban agglomeration as the spatial subject of China's new-type urbanization, and promote the urban agglomeration in the direction of highly integrated, green, intelligent and internationalization. We should continue to implement the strategy of rural revitalization. From the perspective of urban-rural integration, we should convene the central urban-rural work conference and formulate the plan for urban-rural integration and development. We should implement the strategy of urban and rural integration development, promote new-type urbanization and rural revitalization to synchronization, integration, co-prosperity, improve the quality of urban and rural development synchronously, and make the city and the countryside become the beautiful homeland that everybody yearns for.