Changzhou is an ancient cultural city with a written history of over 2500 years. At the same time, it is a new industrial city full of modern flavor and relatively developed economy. She is located in the beautiful and rich Yangtze River Golden Triangle, facing Shanghai, Nanjing and other places across the sea, and forms Suzhou-Wuxi metropolitan area together. She has superior location conditions and convenient land, sea and air transportation conditions. The urban area is adjacent to the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south, and the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, 3 12 National Highway and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal pass through it. The city's water network criss-crosses, connecting rivers and oceans. Changzhou is also "Top 50 Cities in China" and "Top 40 Cities with Excellent Investment Environment in China", the first batch of sustainable development cities in China, a national pilot city and a national health city. The improvement of ecological environment won the "China Human Settlements Model Award". No matter from the active investment of the government and relevant departments, or from the enthusiastic concern of development enterprises for urban planning and development, families living in urban construction have deeply felt the changes that have taken place in Changzhou urban planning and construction in recent years. Concept updating, technology upgrading and level upgrading. In the new development stage of building a well-off society in an all-round way and accelerating socialist modernization, Changzhou needs to establish new development concepts, develop new development resources, build new development advantages, speed up the pace of enriching the people and strengthening the city, and take the lead in building a well-off society in an all-round way and basically realizing modernization at a higher starting point. Accelerating the process of urbanization is one of the strategic ways to realize "two firsts". In the past two years, our city has set off a new wave of urban infrastructure construction, and a number of urban roads, old city reconstruction, new city development and sewage treatment projects have started one after another. The urbanization process of this city is very fast, reaching a fairly high level. However, according to the requirements of "two firsts", urbanization still lags behind. The acceleration of urbanization to meet the requirements of "two firsts" is not only manifested in quantity, but also in quality. Changzhou has now entered the middle stage of urbanization. Judging from the urban form, the phenomenon of "one thousand cities and one style" is serious. A building, the square in front of the building, the green space in front of the square and the statue in front of the green space have all lost their own characteristics in this similar planning and construction. From the functional point of view, some places blindly emphasize the economic functions of cities and only pay attention to the improvement of urban GDP. As a result, GDP has risen, and the goal of urban modernization has not been achieved, because modernization is a comprehensive system of economic, political, cultural, environmental and human development. The dislocation of this function directly leads to the weakening of urban capacity, which is manifested in the fact that some cities cannot bear the radiation function of economy and society to the surrounding countryside and cannot reflect the transformation function of urban modern civilization to traditional agricultural civilization. All these must be paid attention to, strengthened and improved in the planning, and the charm of Changzhou as a dragon city and an ancient cultural city in China will be displayed in the corner of the city. The beauty of a city is the charm and attraction of economic development. Complementing each other and promoting each other is the sustainable and coordinated development. The key to adapt to the requirements of "two firsts" and accelerate the urbanization process in Changzhou is to seize the opportunity. At present, the excellent opportunity for Changzhou to accelerate urbanization is that the "Yangtze River Delta Urban Belt" is rising in the "Yangtze River Delta fever". With a land area of 1% and a population of 6.25%, the Yangtze River Delta has created 20% of the country's GDP, making it one of the regions with the fastest development speed, the best investment environment, the best internal economic quality and the strongest innovation ability. This advantage of the Yangtze River Delta makes it an important region of "integration and three transfers", that is, economic globalization and international transfer of industry, technology and capital, especially international capital is gathering in the Yangtze River Delta on a large scale. Driven by this general trend, a Yangtze River Delta urban belt with Shanghai as the core and leader is emerging, which may replace the Pearl River Delta urban belt, become a new urban agglomeration in China and even Asia, and become the sixth largest urban belt in the world after new york, Toronto, Chicago, Tokyo, Paris and Amsterdam. In such a superior regional environment, Changzhou should integrate with Shanghai as soon as possible, find out its position in this city group, accurately locate its urban functions, find out its development direction, and seize the best opportunity to accelerate urbanization. Take Shanghai as the leader, carry out traffic integration and realize the "same city effect"; Realize the integration of industry, capital, foreign trade, logistics, tourism, information, talents, environment and culture, and accelerate the urbanization process of Changzhou in an all-round way while participating in the formation of a large pattern of cross-fertilization of industries, resource sharing and win-win development among cities in the Yangtze River Delta. In order to meet the requirements of "two firsts", the most important thing in Changzhou's urbanization is to continue to change and update ideas. As a Changzhou native who has been engaged in planning, construction and management for many years, I think we should study more, watch more and listen more. While learning advanced, we should also analyze some typical cases to prevent repeating the same mistakes. The choice of watching and listening should be the development experience of some similar cities at home and abroad, and we should not blindly follow the example of megacities. The promotion of the concept is based on the development of Changzhou characteristics. Own, is characteristic, is the most important, is international. A mood, a city. Perhaps Changzhou gives foreigners the feeling of being energetic, enthusiastic and capable of leading. Cities need spirit and motivation. The motivation comes from thousands of people in Changzhou, Qian Qian and people who are constantly busy in this city. I hope the construction of Changzhou will be better, our sky will be bluer and our water will be greener. I hope to see Changzhou again in 20 years. It is already a model city. Study hard, pay attention to honesty, dare to struggle and start a business! The spirit of Changzhou citizens can best interpret our voices. Let's work together!