Study on the development trend and direction of Chinese urban agglomerations
我国城市群总体发展趋势与方向初探

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.