摘要
Characteristic town is an innovative development model of urban-rural integration.These small towns with certain characteristics play an important role in China’s economic transformation and urban-rural integration.Through literature search and field surveys,this article reports the existing theoretical achievements,including the conceptualization,significance of construction,and the research status of local/foreign characteristic towns.Besides,this article provides some practical suggestions towards the existing research problems and some reference for the planning and construction of characteristic towns.
