Theoretical And Empirical Analysis Of University City

The 21st century is the epoch of knowledge-based economy, which takes knowledge as the foundation and the high technology the core. It displays for producing, utilizing and expense of knowledge, science, technology and management. The development of socio-economy needs the support of many knowledge peaks. University Town, based on universities, colleges and research institutions, takes the trinity of university education, science research, and industrial development as its characteristic. It is not only the concentrated area of higher education, but the area of knowledge-based industry and the hatching center. What is more, it is the technical source and thinking tank of socio-economy development. Therefore, the majority of countries and areas in the world take the construction of university town as one of strategies of their socio-economy development.The new tendency of the construction of university town indicates that socio-economic development in China enters a new developing period. How to think about the university town? What kind of relations do the construction of university town and the development of higher education have? What kind of relations the construction of university town and the development of urban economy? And what kind of relations the construction of university town and the sustainable development of nation? First of all, from the aspect of higher education, it is the need that the resources of the universities are recombined and developed; Secondly, from the aspect of meson-economy, of the development of urban economy; finally, from national aspect, of the sustainable development of nation.When the article begins, it states the basic concept of university town. In the part of theoretic analysis, it comprehensively explicates, with the aid of the theory of agglomeration and dispersion, the theory of new economic growth, the theory of sustainable development and the relative theories of economics, the mechanism between the construction of university town and socio-economic development. Furthermore, on the base of classification of university town, the article thoroughly analyzes the characteristics of different stages of the construction of university town.