Abstract:Urbanization is an important engine for the coming Chinese economic growth and transition, with the gradually deepening of market-oriented reform since “the Third Plenary Meeting of the 18th National Congress of CPC”, the urbanization itself has not only become a part of the social transition process of China but also an important measure to meet many challenges in the process of the transition of present China. China, as the biggest developing country in the world, has the basic features of the urbanization in the big countries in the world but has her particularity, as a result, China not only has the ubiquitous problems in the process of the urbanization of other big countries but also faces more complex special problems. On June 21st, 2014, an Academic Forum on “Frontier Problems in the Urbanization of Big Countries”was held by Editorial Office of Economic Research, Research Center for Cities and Competence of Chinese Academy of Social Science and Chongqing Technology and Business University, the experts and scholars participating in the conference made deep discussions on the achievements and the problems which China has made and met respectively in the progress in the urbanization from multiple angles and around the theme of the urbanization of big countries.