摘要：城市化是21世纪中国现代化进程中的重要组成部分，也是解决经济和社会发展中诸多结构性矛盾的关键点。21世纪是城市的世纪，中国作为世界上人口最多的发展中国家，未来20 年中国城市化进程将对全球发展产生深远影响。本文分析了中国城市化过程中的一个重要问题，即城市发展的趋同与分异，这涉及城市发展路径的不同选择，城市发展趋同及分异的测度指标体系，政府对城市发展的宏观战略布局设计，这些都是中国城市化过程中的重要问题。文章最后还以中国43个典型城市的相关数据作为案例分析，研究了具体的中国城市发展的趋同与分异情况。

Abstract: Urbanization is an important part of Chinese modernization process at the 21st century, and the key point solution for many structural contradictions in the economic and social development. The 21st century is the century of cities. China, the world most populous developing country in the next 20 years, its urbanization process will have a far-reaching impact on the global development. Many foreign scholars take Chinese urbanization and United States tied high-tech as the two key factors which will influence the process of human beings of 21 century. One of major problems involving Chinese urban development, namely, city development convergence and divergence is analyzed. An index system, a different path of urban development, and the macroeconomic strategy are involved. Finally, the 43 Chinese cities are used as the case study of typical data to examine the specific situation of Chinese urban development convergence and divergence.