Abstract：The study of urbanization is one of the multidisciplinary sciences which has been defined by respective sciences from different perspectives. This paper puts forward a refreshed explanation for urbanization, claiming that it is a process in which urban regions and rural areas develop in a correlated way and basically in which urban culture and rural culture integrate. It introduces the dynamic state of theoretical research as to the urban-rural correlated development in detail, dissertates for urban-rural development a new research trend which can easily be identified with the newly developed urban-rural network of correlation staring from 1970s, rather than the preceding and overwhelming outlook of urbanization or rural development. More and more attention is being paid to the network of urban-rural correlated development, which is consequential in the process of urbanization and therefore affording preconditions to urban and rural fair communication and cultural integration. Expounding urban-rural correlated development from a broad sense of culture, the paper proposes that the disparity between town and country is in essence the difference between two cultures. It also makes a detailed explanation for the cultural representation of urban-rural antithesis from such four stratifications as material culture, mental culture, behavioral culture and institutional culture. The disparity between town and country is more than the rootstock of town-country antithesis;it also makes it feasible and necessary for the two sides to achieve correlated development. The ultimate goal of urban-rural correlated development is not getting rid of differences but getting rid of antithesis. Urban and rural cultural integration is a valid way to make up the respective cultural defectiveness. Urban and rural cultural differences are chiefly the differences between modern industrial culture and traditional agricultural culture, so what we should do is to retain the beneficial section and integrate it with something in rural culture in order to congregate the excellent culture in district. Urban-rural cultural integration is the deepening up of urbanization based on urban-rural correlation and incarnates the fundamental target that the residents in cities and villages all can benefit from it.
