Abstract: Cities are the centers of economic, political, cultural and social activities in China, which are playing a decisive role in the overall cause of the Party and the state. Since the 18th National Congress of CPC, Xi Jinping has delivered a series of important expositions around the topics of “what kind of cities to construct”and“how to construct cities”, which have formed a set of systemically integrate and logically precise theoretical system. Its theory comes from Marx and Engels' urban thought, the urban construction theory of the Communist Party of China, the wisdom of Chinese traditional urban construction and the frontier concept of foreign urban construction. Its ideological connotation includes eight aspects of the cities in the new era, such as the nature and function, construction objectives, fundamental positions, construction principles, governance logic, internal requirements, international vision, and leadership. The appearance of these important expositions have developed Marxist urban theory and the thought of urban construction with Chinese characteristics, providing a fundamental route for China's urban construction to follow in the new era, and providing Chinese wisdom for the urban construction of all countries in the world today.

Key words: Xi jinping, urban construction, urban governance, city of people