内蒙古自治区城市化发展途径及趋势

THE ROAD AND TENDENCY TO URBANIZATION IN INNER MONGOLIA

内蒙古自治区城市化进程经历了正常发展、大起大落、徘徊不前和飞速发展等阶段。内蒙古城镇发展，主要受资源、国家重点开发与建设、经济基础、生态环境条件、地缘和区位优势、交通便捷、产业结构优化等动力因素的影响，其发展途径多种多样。内蒙古城市化发展趋势，主要是大城市适度发展，使城镇群的规模等级结构与职能结构趋向合理；中小城市飞速发展，提高其城市现代化水平；县城的规模和功能迅速扩大和增强，乡镇快速发展成城镇和集镇，推进城市化进程；乡村、牧区迅速实现现代化。

Since the founding of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the rapid urbanization in Inner Mongolia has gone through three stages—the stage of normal development, the stage of sharp rise and fall, and the stage of swift development. The city development in Inner Mongolia is chiefly subject to influences from such dynamic factors as natural resources , key development and construction projects by the state, the economic base, ecological environment, geographical position and adva tages of its locality, convenient trasportation, and the optimization of industrial structure.As a result the cities have been developing in diversified ways . The tendency of urbanization in Inner Mongolia shuld be that big cities develop in moderation so that the size and structure of town groups is getting more and more reasonable ; middle and small towns develop rapidly so as to raise their level of modernization; the size and functions of county towns are quickly enlarged and improved; large district villages quickly develop into towns so as to speed up the course of modernization ; villages and pastoral areas become modernized at a high speed so as to promote the integration of town and country.