The new urbanization is the driving force of the steady and rapid economic development of China in the future. Wuhan, with seven central city areas and six new urban areas, has a good base for new urbanization after years of construction planning and development. Wuhan is forming a new combinative urban system that the central city areas perform centralized urbanization and the new urban areas perform distributed urbanization. In this system, the new downtowns are the growth pole of urban development. It requires rational distribution, appropriate accumulation, land saving, environmental protection first and people-oriented principle to promote orderly urbanization. The new characteristic towns have formed four patterns, including the industrial pattern, the commercial and trade logistics pattern, the agricultural supporting pattern and the cultural tourism pattern. In 2013 and 2014, Wuhan will boost new urbanization positively and reliably through moderate growing investment, consumption demand, industrial multiplication programs, upgrading service industry programs, agricultural modernization, improving and dilating the quality of the towns and so on.
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