小城镇不仅能帮助不堪重负的大都市实现功能转移,它本身也可以成为区域经济发展中的新增长极特色小镇,是加快新型城镇化建设的一个重要突破口,也是目前大力推进的重要任务。国外的特色小镇也不少,有些小镇不仅具有优渥的人居环境、深厚的历史文化遗迹和特色鲜明的城市风貌,而且很多 Small cities and towns can not only help functionally transfer overwhelmed metropolises, but they can also become newly-developed and extremely distinctive towns in the development of regional economy. They are an important breakthrough point for accelerating the new-type urbanization and an important task that is vigorously promoted at present. There are also many characteristic towns in foreign countries. Some small towns not only have an excellent living environment, rich historical and cultural relics and distinctive urban features, but also many