Urban Transformation refers to the significant change and transition in various urban fields and aspects,which is a comprehensive transformation with multi-field,multi-aspect,multi-level and multi-angle.In the past,China's urban development has mostly been on the road of extensive model,characterized by high growth,high consumption,high emission and high expansion.With this development model,some problems have appeared in the process of China's urban development,such as the disorderly and inefficient development,the imbalanced urban-rural and regional development and the unharmonious social development etc.;obviously,this is not sustainable.At present,Chinese cities are in a new stage of accelerated and overall transformation.It is important to quickly accomplish the economic,social and ecological overall transformation,to establish a new mode of scientific development with low consumption,low emission,high efficiency,and harmonious and orderly development,taking the intensive,innovative,integrated,harmonious,green and characteristic development road.
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Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Zhongye Building, 28 Shuguangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, China;