我国贸易开放度在改革开放政策出台、社会主义市场经济体制确立、中国加入WTO以及全球金融危机等几个关键时间点上发生了巨大变化。与之几乎同步的是我国城镇化进程也在几个比较关键的时间节点上发生了明显变化,二者具有一定的趋同性。贸易开放会通过产业集聚效应、价格效应、收入分配效应以及工业化等几个渠道推动城镇化,贸易开放度越高的地区,其城镇化步伐越快,城镇化率更高。随着我国进入对外开放的新时期,应该充分发挥贸易开放聚集效应带动城镇化发展,加快贸易结构转型升级以发挥东部地区的带动作用,发挥“一带一路”倡议均衡推进全国城镇化,不断提升我国城镇化发展水平和城镇化率。 China’s trade opening has undergone tremendous changes at the key reform and opening-up policies, the establishment of a socialist market economic system, China’s accession to the WTO and the global financial crisis. Almost simultaneously, the process of urbanization in our country has undergone significant changes in several key time nodes, and the two have a certain degree of convergence. The opening up of trade will promote urbanization through industrial agglomeration effects, price effects, income distribution effects and industrialization. The higher the degree of trade openness, the faster urbanization and the higher urbanization rate will be. With China’s entry into the new period of opening to the outside world, it is necessary to give full play to the effect of trade opening-up and aggregation to promote the development of urbanization, speed up the restructuring and upgrading of the trade structure and bring the leading role of the eastern region into full play. We should give full play to the “Belt and Road Initiatives” to promote a balanced urbanization across the country Enhance China’s urbanization level and urbanization rate.