"People-centered new urbanization" embodies the fundamental purpose of people-centered.

  The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee made important arrangements for the new urbanization strategy, and proposed to "adhere to the implementation of major regional strategies, regional coordinated development strategies, and main functional area strategies, improve the system and mechanism of regional coordinated development, improve the new urbanization strategy, and build a high-quality land spatial layout and support system", especially pointing out that it is necessary to "promote the new urbanization with people as the core". Promoting the new urbanization with people as the core is the concrete embodiment of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s basic strategy of adhering to the people as the center in the urbanization work in the new era, which we should deeply understand and conscientiously implement.

  Urban planning should adhere to the all-round progress of society and the all-round development of people

  Throughout the development of human society, urbanization is an insurmountable stage for a country to modernize. In the development of a country, industrialization and urbanization often accompany each other and promote each other. The objective law of economic development determines that industry and population are concentrated in advantageous areas, and economy and factors are concentrated in cities and towns. This concentration and aggregation can produce a "multiplier effect", which is conducive to improving productivity and creating more material wealth. This objective economic law makes people realize that urbanization is an important driving force for economic development, and then make urban planning from the perspective of economic development. It cannot be ignored that urbanization is an important driving force for economic development, but it is not the ultimate goal of economic development. The ultimate goal of economic development is to let people live a good life. Therefore, to promote new urbanization with people as the center, urban planning should adhere to the all-round progress of society and the all-round development of people.

  All-round social progress and all-round human development are two sides of the same problem. Marx pointed out in the Outline of Feuerbach that "the essence of human beings is not an abstract thing inherent in a single person, but in reality, it is the sum of all social relations". Social relations are precisely formed by people in the process of production and life. In this sense, all-round social progress and all-round human development are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. On the one hand, all-round social progress provides the premise and foundation for all-round development of human beings, on the other hand, all-round development of human beings is a necessary condition for all-round social progress. Adhering to the all-round progress of society and the all-round development of people means persisting in taking the people as the center. Specifically, in urban planning, we should focus on the concrete embodiment of the main social contradictions in urbanization in Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, promote the overall layout of "five in one" and the strategic layout of "four comprehensive" as a whole, firmly establish a new development concept, and adhere to the new urbanization road with China characteristics, which is people-oriented, synchronized with the four modernizations, optimized layout, ecological civilization and cultural inheritance.

  Urban planning should be guided by the idea of ecological civilization and the overall concept of national security

  Cities are symbols of human civilization and represent the height of civilization. In the era of agricultural civilization, human beings began to migrate to cities, and this migration was accelerated in the era of industrial civilization. In the process of urbanization in China, influenced by the concept of industrial civilized city, there is a problem of ignoring the construction of ecological civilization, which leads to the construction of ecological civilization in some places becoming a prominent shortcoming. On the one hand, the production capacity of industrial products and services is expanding, on the other hand, the ability to provide high-quality ecology is weakening. In response to this phenomenon, the Supreme Leader General Secretary profoundly pointed out that "man and nature are a symbiotic relationship, and the harm to nature will eventually hurt mankind itself". Practice has repeatedly proved that the urban planning led by industrial civilization, due to insufficient attention to ecology, eventually caused harm to people and hurt people’s safety, the purpose of national security.

  To persist in taking people as the center and promote new urbanization, we must adhere to the guidance of ecological civilization and overall national security concept in urban planning. To build a livable city, we must adhere to the idea of ecological civilization, adhere to the harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and regard the city as an organic life. Urban planning should not only respect the laws of economy, society and urban and rural development, but also pay attention to the laws of nature. It is necessary to delimit the red line of ecological protection and the boundary of urban development to reserve space for sustainable development. To build a resilient city, we must adhere to the overall national security concept and pay special attention to the economic security, cultural security, social security, ecological security and resource security of the city. It is necessary to avoid the scale and speed of urban construction exceeding financial resources, thus accumulating financial and financial risks. It is necessary to maintain the soul of the city, inherit our national culture and continue the historical context of the city. We should pay attention to the security and stability problems brought about by population mobility, changes in social structure and diversification of interest demands in the process of urbanization, and improve the modernization level of urban governance. It is necessary to set up necessary ecological security barriers, delimit and strictly observe the ecological red line. We should vigorously economize and intensively use resources and form a green development mode and lifestyle.

  Urban development should take people’s life safety and health as the basic goal.

  General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out, "If the goal of urbanization is correct and the direction is right, a new path can be found, which will help to release the huge potential of domestic demand, improve labor productivity, crack the dual structure of urban and rural areas, promote social equity and common prosperity, and the world economy and ecological environment will also benefit from it." This passage profoundly points out the importance of urban development goals, which is related to how to take the new urbanization road.

  In the process of urbanization, there is a lesson that our goals are biased. In some places, the urbanization rate is pursued unilaterally, and it is a hard task to improve the urbanization rate in the statistical sense, relying on administrative orders to increase the number. For example, many places blindly build a large number of new towns and districts, and as a result, no one comes, thus accumulating a lot of contradictions and problems. For another example, in some places, when promoting the urbanization of agricultural transfer population, they did not respect the wishes of farmers and demolished rural houses regardless of conditions, which had a very bad social impact. Facts have proved that urbanization is a natural historical process and a process of economic and social development. We must proceed from the basic national conditions in the primary stage of socialism and take people’s life safety and health as the basic goal.

  Taking people’s life safety and health as the basic goal, we must earnestly achieve "people first, life first, and protect people’s life safety and health at all costs." There are many urban development goals, such as economic development goals, social development goals, infrastructure construction goals, regional coordination and urban-rural integration development goals. Taking people’s life safety and health as the basic goal of urban development is not to ignore other development goals, but to obey the basic goal of serving people’s life safety and health when setting other development goals. When other development goals conflict with the basic goals, we should adhere to the priority of the basic goals and appropriately revise other development goals.

  Overall planning of urban layout should effectively meet people’s needs

  Marxism holds that material production activities and modes of production are the basis for the existence and development of human society and the primary premise of all other human activities. This foundation and primary premise is precisely to "produce materials that meet these needs (food, clothing and shelter)". It is not difficult to see that the fundamental purpose of human activities is to meet people’s practical needs. To promote a new type of urbanization with people as the core, we must also effectively meet the practical needs of the people. In this regard, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that "urban development should not only consider economies of scale, but also put ecology and safety in a more prominent position, and coordinate the economic needs, living needs, ecological needs and safety needs of urban layout".

  First of all, coordinating economic needs is the basis of promoting new urbanization with people as the core. The formation of modern cities stems from the huge demand for labor force from the development of machinery industry, which shows that economic needs are the basis of urbanization. How to meet the people’s economic needs, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader put forward: "The key for people to settle down in cities is to cultivate and develop distinctive urban industrial systems according to urban resource endowments, strengthen specialized division of labor and cooperation among cities, and enhance the industrial undertaking capacity of small and medium-sized cities, especially to increase the proportion of service industries, enhance urban innovation capabilities, and create a good employment and living environment." Secondly, coordinating life needs is the goal of promoting new urbanization with people as the core. The fundamental goal of promoting new urbanization with people as the core is to meet people’s living needs. To meet the needs of life, we must actively promote the citizenization of agricultural transfer population and ensure that we enjoy the same rights and fulfill the same obligations as urban residents. Improve urban functions in an all-round way, improve the level of urban public services, increase the supply of public services, and enhance the ability to support population agglomeration and services. Thirdly, coordinating ecological needs is the condition for promoting new urbanization with people as the core. Urbanization is restricted by natural conditions, carrying capacity of resources and environment, and the level of economic and social development. Meeting people’s ecological needs can not only provide people with more high-quality ecological products, but also provide natural conditions and resource and environmental conditions for new urbanization with people as the core. Finally, coordinating security needs is the guarantee of promoting new urbanization with people as the core.According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, once people’s basic physiological needs are met, security needs will become the most important needs. Prosperity and security are the most basic and universal aspirations of the people. Without security and stability, nothing can be said. Only when the society remains safe and stable can we better promote the new urbanization with people as the core.

  At the historical intersection of "two hundred years", the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee put forward a perfect new urbanization strategy with people as the core, and the "the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Proposal on Formulating the 14th Five-year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-term Target for the Year 2035" reviewed and adopted put forward substantial urban planning and construction management contents. As long as the whole party and people of all ethnic groups closely unite around the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core and work hard with one heart and one mind, we will certainly be able to better promote the new urbanization with people as the core and provide people with a healthier, safer and more livable high-quality living space!

  (The author is a researcher at Tianjin University of Science and Technology Base, Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theoretical System Research Center, Tianjin)