The Central Urban Work Conference held from July 14 to 15, 2025 emphasized that we should "go to build a modern people's city that is innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized and smart", and proposed "focus on building a civilized city that respects morality and goodness." Cities are the core carrier of civilization, an important platform for social development, and an important field of a better life. Urban civilization is a new stage and new form of urbanization, and is the quality improvement, structural optimization and characteristic generation of urbanization. Going towards urban civilization is an important trend in the development of world civilization; building a civilized modern people's city is an important part of Chinese-style modernization. Looking to the future, deepening the construction of urban civilization is of great significance to browsing a new path to modernizing cities with Chinese characteristics and solving the problems of world civilization and urban history.   

The key content of urban civilization The city is an organism and a living body, and the unity of space, market and order. Urban civilization is an organic unity of spatial civilization, market civilization and order civilization. Building urban civilization first means consciously promoting three transformations and three directions.   From "spatial production" to "spatial civilization". Space is the first emotional content of the city. Carrying out space production, creating houses, roads, squares, parks, etc., to serve people's survival and safety, livelihood and life, communication and communication, consumption and culture, etc. are the basic content of urban construction. With the development of productivity, the accumulation of wealth, and the improvement of governance capabilities, people will have new needs for the quality, structure, function, etc. of space. It has become an inevitable trend to shift from space production to space civilization. Space civilization is the advancement and optimizatio