1, the overall level is low according to the survey data shows that the urbanization rate of Yunnan province broke through 30% for the first time in 2006, while the national urbanization rate reached 30% in 1996, the difference between the two is a whole 10 years, the gap between the level of Yunnan's urbanization and the country's urbanization has been maintained at more than 10 percentage points, as of 2019, the country's urbanization rate was 60.6%, while Yunnan's was only 48.9%. Compared with other provinces Yunnan's urbanization rate is also lagging behind.

2, few big cities, small city size, Yunnan **** there are 8 cities above the prefecture level, of which the capital city of Kunming is the largest city in Yunnan, with a population of 6.95 million people in 2019, accounting for 73.6% of the urban population, and Qujing is the second largest city in Yunnan, with a population of 6.178 million people in 2019, accounting for 49.6% of the urban population. As far as the 2019 data is concerned, the three cities in Yunnan with a population of more than 5 million people are Kunming, Qujing and Zhaotong, and only two cities, Kunming and Yuxi, are more than 50% in terms of urbanization rate, while the urbanization rate of the four regions, Zhaotong, Baoshan, Nujiang and Diqing, has not yet exceeded 40%.