广州是华南的经济中心,是我国南方最重要的贸易口岸。广州城市功能的发展方向问题,实质上是广州应如何认识自己的客观经济条件和经济优势,努力使本身的条件和优势发挥得更合理,更充分,从而促进整个城市的经济发展得更快的问题。我们认为,为了合理地发展广州的城市功能,广州今后应建设成“以‘综合城市型’的工业为基础,以外贸为特点,商业、金融业发达的多功能城市”。所谓“综合城市型”的工业,就是工业用水 Guangzhou is the economic center of South China and the most important trade port in southern China. The question of the development direction of Guangzhou’s urban functions is essentially how Guangzhou should know its own objective economic conditions and economic advantages and strive to make its own conditions and advantages play a more rational and adequate role to promote the economic development of the entire city more rapidly problem. In our opinion, in order to rationally develop Guangzhou’s urban functions, Guangzhou should be built into a multi-functional city featuring “integrated urban-based” industries, characterized by foreign trade, and developed in commerce and finance. The so-called “integrated city-type” industry is industrial water