The 18th Issue of Biweekly Policy Analysis Meeting Report: The Path of China’s Urbanization from Rapid Growth to Stable Development

Abstract: China’s urbanization is at a critical juncture, shifting from a phase of rapid expansion to a new stage of stable development. This transition not only affects the sustainability of economic growth but also directly influences the optimization of social structures and the improvement of people’s livelihoods. Ensuring the stable and healthy development of urbanization carries major strategic significance for building a new development paradigm and advancing common prosperity in a solid manner. In this regard, the experts proposed the following recommendations for the stable development of urbanization.

Transforming the growth model

Government departments should abandon the previous reliance on land expansion and demographic dividends, shifting instead to an intensive development model centered on quality improvement and structural optimization.

Adopting differentiated strategies

Urbanization should follow the principle of adapting measures to local conditions and providing categorized guidance, implementing differentiated development strategies based on the stage of development and resource endowments of different regions and cities of varying scales, and avoiding “one-size-fits-all” policies.

Deepening institutional reforms

Advance reforms linking “people, land, and finance”, improve mechanisms for rural land exit and urban cost-sharing, and remove barriers to urban residency.

Optimizing spatial layout

Strictly control the supply of new construction land, revitalize inefficient and underutilized industrial land, and promote coordinated development among urban clusters, metropolitan areas, and counties, thereby building a multi-centered and networked urban system.

Fostering new development driving forces

Cultivate new quality productive forces through technological innovation and industrial upgrading, while simultaneously strengthening urban governance capacity to build green, smart, and resilient new cities.

人大国发院双周政策分析简报（第十八期）—我国城镇化从快速增长转向稳定发展的路径