Discussion on the Problems and Path of Characteristic Town Construction in Underdeveloped, Resource-Based Cities: A Case Study of Ganzhou City

摘要

Characteristic towns as a characteristic industry are one of the important measures of China’s new urbanization strategy. The construction of characteristic towns in different regions needs to pay attention to regional differentiation. At present, the research on characteristic towns focuses on the developed the developed central and eastern regions. There are still few studies on characteristics towns in underdeveloped areas. Starting from the analysis of the concept of the characteristic town, this paper sorted out the general situation of the construction of characteristic towns in China based on the existing research literature, selected Ganzhou City for research, pointed out there were “two restrictions and two singles” in the construction of characteristic towns in Ganzhou City, and clarified that the characteristic towns of Ganzhou City should adhere to the construction path of “two characteristics and two integrations”, with a view to providing a useful reference for in Ganzhou City the construction of characteristic towns,industrial transformation and upgrading, and poverty alleviation in such underdeveloped, resource-based cities.