2014年4月,习近平总书记在中共中央政治局第十四次集体学习时指出,要满足信教群众正常的宗教需求;5月,习总书记在第二次中央新疆工作座谈会上再次强调,要依法保障信教群众正常宗教需求,稳步拓宽信教群众正确掌握宗教常识的合法渠道。这些论述对于我们思考当下城镇化进程中的宗教工作同样有着指导意义。城镇化过程有2个突出特点:一是城镇数目的增多,二是各城市内人口规模不断扩大。改革开放以来,经过30多年的发展,我国城镇化率达到了 In April 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during the fourteenth collective study of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee that it is necessary to meet the normal religious needs of religious believers. In May, General Secretary Xi emphasized once again at the second symposium on the work of central Xinjiang that, It is necessary to safeguard the normal religious requirements of religious believers according to law and steadily broaden the legal channels for religious believers to correctly grasp religious common sense. These discourses are also instructive for our thinking about the religious work in the present process of urbanization. The process of urbanization has two prominent features: one is the increase in the number of cities and towns, and the second is the continuous expansion of population within each city. Since the reform and opening up, after more than 30 years of development, the urbanization rate in our country has reached