The first release of the Sixth National Population Census results in April 2011 revealed that mainland China had a total population of 1339.72 million, of which 665.58 million resided in urbanized areas. This suggested that the urbanization process had accelerated during the period 2000-2010, with an increase of the urbanization rate from 36.09% to 49.68%. However, due to the incomparability of the Censuses data, caution must be taken when urbanists investigate or model Chinese cities by such datasets. This research note summarizes and compares the shifting definitions of city (shi) and urban population (chengshi renkou) statistics with an emphasis on the Sixth Census, and analyzes their implications for measuring and understanding the urbanization process in China. （SSCI)

中国城市化的注解：城市定义和普查数据
  国家统计局在2011年4月公布的第六次人口普查公报显示在2010年底中国总人口为13亿3972万，其中6亿6558万居住在城市地区。这显示中国的城市化水平从2000年的36.09%快速提升到2010年的49.68%。然而由于不同时间人口普查中城市数据的不可比性，城市研究者在分析这些数据或者基于这些数据构建模型的时候必须要小心谨慎。侧重于对六普的分析，本文总结和比较不同时期对市和城市人口的统计定义，并讨论其变化对测量和理解中国城市化进程的影响。