中国城镇中的贫困、失业和通货膨胀等问题存在着明显的空间特征。城镇贫困人口主要集中在中西部地区，特别是中西部一些经济发展不很理想的城市。由于收入分配不均程度较高，中西部城镇贫困问题更加严重。中国的失业问题存在明显的地域特点，这种地域差别并不完全是由经济发展水平决定的，而有其更加复杂的社会经济结构背景。从９０年代中期开始，中西部地区通货膨胀速度相对高于东部，其负面影响不能低估。本文作者指出要认真研究区域发展中的负面问题，重新考虑区域发展的衡量指标体系问题，研究相对落后地区城镇的社会经济结构变迁问题，特别是要科学地制定贫困城镇的划分标准，对贫困城镇加以援助 The problems of poverty, unemployment and inflation in Chinese cities and towns exist obvious spatial characteristics. The urban poor are mainly concentrated in the central and western regions, especially some in the central and western regions where economic development is not very satisfactory. Due to the high level of income inequality, the problem of urban poverty in the central and western regions is even more serious. There are obvious geographical features in China’s unemployment problem. Such geographical differences are not entirely determined by the level of economic development but have a more complicated social and economic structural background. Since the mid-1990s, inflation in the central and western regions has been relatively higher than in the east, and the negative impact can not be underestimated. The author points out that it is necessary to conscientiously study the negative issues in regional development, reconsider the issue of the measurement index system of regional development, and study the social and economic structural changes in cities and towns in relatively backward areas. In particular, we should scientifically formulate the criteria for dividing the poor towns, Assistance