我國民族地區新型城鎮化肩負著重要的歷史使命。一方面,新型城鎮化是民族地區實現現代化的必由之路,是促進社會全面進步的必然要求;另一方面,民族地區涵蓋了新型城鎮化的新內容、新要求、新挑戰,是新型城鎮化建設的一個特色樣本。因此,探索民族地區新型城鎮化的模式選擇具有重要的理論及現實意義。本文著眼于當前民族地區新型城鎮化發展的困境與問題,認為民族地區新型城鎮化的重點在于創新與因勢利導,難點在于如何將新型城鎮化的結構演進與民族生命力的可持續性相統一,倡導在遵循客觀規律的前提下走定制化與特色化的新型城鎮化道路。同時,提出了民族地區新型城鎮化的六種模式設想,為實現以人為本、以文化為脈、以生態為基、以耦合共生為目標的民族地區新型城鎮化提供理論借鑒。

The new-type urbanization of ethnic minority areas bears an important historical mission in China. On the one hand, new-type urbanization is the only way of fulfilling modernization in ethnic areas and the necessary requirement of promoting wellrounded social development. On the other hand, the ethnic minority areas is a characteristic sample of the new-type urbanization construction that covers the new content, new requirements and new challenges of the new-type urbanization. Therefore, exploring the mode selection of the new-type modernization in ethnic minority areas has important theoretical and practical meanings. This article focuses on the current difficulties and problems in the development of urbanization in ethnic minority areas and suggests that the key points’ of urbanization in ethnic minority areas are innovation and adroitly of guiding people’s actions according to circumstances, whereas the difficulty is how to unify the evolution of the structure of new-type urbanization and the sustainability of national vitality and advocate customized and characteristic urbanization path on the premise of following objective laws. Meanwhile, this paper points out the hypothesis of the six modes of the newtype modernization in ethnic minority areas in order to provide a theoretical reference for the realization of "people first, culture as the pulse, ecology as the base, and coupling with symbiosis as the goal."