Abstract:Urban vitalization is an important part of urbanization, and an important driving force for sustainable development of cities. In urban vitalization, culture plays an increasingly important role as capital. In the context of globalization and modern transformation of urban economy, urban vitalization provides unprecedented space and diverse development paths for the construction of urban culture. The environment of urban development in China is complex, which determines that in urban vitalization culture must adapt to globalization and public demands, and follow the law of urban development. To formulate cultural strategies for China’s urban vitalization, we need to adjust five relationships: the relationship between diversity of cities and top design of cities, the relationship between public cultural facilities construction and urban cultural space, the relationship between local cultural life and network cultural space, the relationship between local historical and cultural heritage and urban new area culture, the relationship between urban economic transformation and cultural creative industry. Guided by new-type urbanization, we construct self-organizing cultural systems in urban vitalization so as to promote the sustainable development of cities.