特色小镇是在几平方公里土地上集聚特色产业、生产生活生态空间相融合、不同于行政建制镇和产业园区的创新创业平台。特色小城镇是拥有几十平方公里以上土地和一定人口经济规模、特色产业鲜明的行政建制镇。

2016年，特色小镇上升到国家层面，成为一种市场化主导的创新创业发展的新模式，其本质是产城融合发展理念下的产业集聚、升级和培育问题，不同点在于特色小镇的文化IP营造，实现产业、文化、旅游、生活的融合发展。由于我国地域辽阔，各地经济背景、自然资源 迥异，因此特色小镇在不同省份的界定方式与发展模式也有所不同。

The characteristic town is an innovative and entrepreneurial platform that integrates characteristic industries, production and living ecological space on several square kilometers of land, and is different from administrative towns and industrial parks. The characteristic small towns are administrative towns with a land area of dozens of square kilometers and a certain population and economic scale, and distinctive industries.

n 2016, the characteristic towns rose to the national level and became a new model of market-oriented innovation and entrepreneur ship development. The essence of this is the industrial agglomeration, upgrading and cultivation under the concept of integrated production and development. The difference lies in the characteristic towns. Cultural IP is created to realize the integrated development of industry, culture, tourism and life. Due to the vast territory of China and the different economic backgrounds and natural