新型城镇化研究的意义、目标与任务

Significance,Progress and Tasks of New-type Urbanization Research

城镇化是地球表层发生的以最为显著的人类活动为主并与其他圈层相互作用的综合地理过程,具有明显的交叉学科特点。新型城镇化既是国家战略,也是地学极为重要的前沿交叉学科方向和重点研究领域之一。未来地球研究计划(Future Earth)、SDGs和国际地理联合会的"面向未来地球的地理学:人地系统耦合与可持续发展委员会"(IGU-GFE)也都强调城镇化与人地系统耦合以及可持续发展。通过简要回顾城镇化研究进展,提出城镇化研究面临的挑战和机遇,以及下一步研究的目标和任务。建议发挥多学科交叉特色,加强交叉学科领域城镇化的基础研究深度与决策支撑水平。面向国际研究前沿和国家重大需求,尽早提出系统开展新型城镇化研究的顶层设计和科技布局建议,提升我国该领域研究在国际上的影响力、话语权和主动权,更好地发挥基础研究服务国家战略需求的重要作用。

Urbanization is the most prominent comprehensive geographical process based on human activities in the surface of the Earth,with obvious interdisciplinary characteristics. In recent years,new urbanization has become an important frontier issue both at home and abroad. Urbanization is also one of the most important frontier interdisciplinary directions and one of the key research areas of geosciences. Future Earth,the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)and the International Geographical Union’s Commission on Geography for Future Earth:Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability(IGU-GFE) all emphasize coupling relationship between urbanization and human-earth system and sustainable development. Based on the discussion of significance of urbanization research in interdisciplinary fields,this paper reviewed the progress of urbanization research and put forward challenges and opportunities of urbanization research,and its objectives and tasks. It is recommended to play the role of the multi-disciplinary cross-cutting characteristics and strengthen the scientific and technological support and basic research depth of urbanization in interdisciplinary fields. To face the international research frontier and meet China’s major needs,we proposed the top-level design and scientific and technological layout for urbanization research as soon as possible so as to improve the influence,the right to speak and the initiative of China’s urbanization research in the world and play the scientific and technological support role of basic research better to serve the country’s strategic needs.