Study On Western New Rural Construction Corresponding To Urbanization

Urbanization is a long-term strategy of economic and social development in China, andnew rural construction is a strategically basic national policy to promote economic and socialstability and harmonious development. In the "fast" urbanization process at a so-called macrodata level, because of biased relevant policies, under the appearance of urbanization at anexcessive speed, there are some considerable structural problems, such as large citiesdevelopment out of control, deficiency development of small and medium-sized cities, lack ofvitality in rural areas development, etc. It is well known that establishing policy forcoordination of rural and urban development is necessary for economic and socialcoordination, sustainable development, and rural construction, and this is already discussedand corresponding measures are proposed by the policy researchers. However, in practice, it isgetting worse instead of narrowing the gap between rural and urban. It means that results ofthe game between interest groups have not achieved Pareto improvement. At the same time,some studies indicate that new rural construction should be improved by the urbanization. But,unfortunately, they don't show how to do it in details and there is no systematic research onwhat roles the city should play in the new rural construction and how to play. Therefore, theresearch on relationship between new rural construction and urbanization and how tocoordinate the two not only represents a new trend, but also is very urgent. Urbanization levelin Western regions needs significant improvement, and coordination problems of new ruralconstruction and urbanization process are acute. For the direction of industrialization andurbanization development, it is of great importance to the theory and the practice to establishnew rural construction position in the Western regions, and to create coordination pattern ofnew rural construction and urbanization which conforms economic and social developmentrules.After reviewing related literatures, this study redefines different contents of rural areasand villages, and the urbanization development stages. It also clarifies the internal relationshipof new rural construction and urbanization process through analysis of the urban and ruralfunction evolution at different stages of the urbanization. And the internal relationship is thatnew rural construction is tactical, adjustable and dependent compared with urbanization strategy. Based on this, this study identifies the development stages of the urbanization in theWestern region by the introduction of integrated urbanization level calculation method. It alsoquantitatively analyzes temporal and spatial characteristics of relationship of urban and ruralin the Western region in three respects: economy duality, life duality and supply duality ofpublic goods. Then the relationship of urban and rural in the Western region is divided intofive types according to binary contrast coefficient trend. As a result of bias between the newrural construction policy target and construction in practice, it explains coordination contentof new rural construction and urbanization from coordination respects of "hardware" and"software", and it further discusses coordination mechanism of the two. For the "hardware"coordination indicator valuation system, it consists of design development level anddevelopment potential. The study applies two-stage time-series principal component analysismethod to obtain sub-system scores for each indicator and comprehensive coordinationvaluation scores. Urban-rural coordination comprehensive value score of Chongqingdecreases first and then increases. In Sichuan, it shows an overall increase trend with a slightdecrease. In Shaanxi, however, it indicates a steady decrease trend. Based on this, urban-ruralcoordination indicators are calculated. They suggest that, of the three regions, Sichuan is theone with the fast improvement of urban village coordination. While in Shaanxi andChongqing, urban-rural development tendencies are quite similar, and they show a trend fromrelative coordination to not coordination and then back to coordination again. Because newrural construction should be a form of judgment to urbanization of economic organizationstyle and life style, this study designs new rural construction and urbanization process"software" coordination indicator valuation system. Based on the factor analysis, Logisticregression model of acceptance of rural households to new rural construction are used to getpriority order of new rural construction acceptance of various economic organizations and lifestyles. Starting from the practical experience of domestic and international urban and ruralcoordination, it proposes coordination patterns of new rural construction and urbanizationprocess in the Western regions, and explores coordination patterns in stages of various ruralregions. What is more, it suggests coordination paths of new rural construction andurbanization process in the Western regions in macro strategic level, middle managementlevel, and micro operability level.The contributions of the study are as follows:(1) according to different functions, itredefines rural areas and villages which are all outside of cities and then divides theurbanization into two stages. One of the stages is physical process characterized by outwardmechanical population migration, while the other is chemical process in which urban andrural cultures with population migration as carrier collide, fuse, refine and then finally unify into a new urban civilization.(2) Based on theory and international experience, it explainsthere are dialectical relationships between new rural construction and urbanization, and theyare primary and the secondary contradictions and global and local contradictions.(3) With thehelp of econometrics, it establishes a complete set of new rural construction and urbanizationprocess coordination measure methods. Reflecting new urban civilization, they not onlyimprove "hardware" indicator system most research already indicate, but also emphasis on"software" indicator, such as political believes, values, and aesthetic attitudes.(4) It createsnew rural construction and urbanization process coordination patterns and proposes that itshould follow the city-led approach and develop new rural construction around centre cities.