小城镇在增加农民收入、解决农村劳动力就业、加快农村人口集聚等方面发挥着重要作用。但目前我国小城镇仍存在规模偏小、带动农村发展能力较弱等突出问题。适度控制小城镇数量,选择一批有发展前途的小城镇进行重点建设,培育成为中心镇,将是农村城镇化的主要途径和方式,对于推进新农村建设具有重要意义。中心镇在推进新农村建设中的作用 Small towns play an important role in increasing peasants’ income, solving employment problems in rural areas, and accelerating the concentration of rural population. However, at present, there are still some prominent problems in the small towns in our country, such as the small scale and the weak ability in rural development. To moderately control the number of small towns, select a group of small towns with promising prospects for key construction and cultivate them into central towns will be the main ways and modes of rural urbanization, which are of great significance for promoting the new rural reconstruction. Central town in promoting the construction of new countryside role