Research On The Integration Of Urban And Rural Areas Of Zhejiang Province

After30years of reform and opening up, China has realized three spans from the planned economy to the market economy, from insufficient food and clothing to the overall well-off and from closed agricultural society to an open industrial society. Consistently high economic growth significantly enhanced China’s comprehensive national strength, and also significantly improve the living standard of the Chinese people. The development between urban and rural areas and among regions, however, is extremely unbalanced, especially the rural development is still lag behind; imbalance state of the urban-rural relationship is still outstanding. It has become one of the prominent contradictions in the current Chinese economic and social development.Zhejiang Province, after many years of exploration and practice, has achieved notable successes in balancing urban and rural development and in promoting urban and rural integration.Strengthening the analysis and summary of practical experience of urban and rural integrated in Zhejiang Province, is conducive to deepening the understanding of urban and rural integration, and will better the grasp of the inherent laws of urban and rural integration. This paper taking Zhejiang province as an example, based on economics, sociology theory and the empirical analysis, sought to measures and approaches of promoting urban-rural integration. The main contents included the following aspects:I. The generation and evolution of urban-rural dual structure in China. This paper summed the background and evolution process of the urban-rural dual structure since the founding of New Chinam. and further understood the nature of urban and rural dual structure.II. The relationship between Zhejiang’s new development stage and urban-rural integration. This paper analysed the process and characteristics at this stage and problems in urban-rural integration of Zhejiang province, and researched the issue of agriculture, rural areas and farmers in the middle or later stage of industrialization, and discussed opportunities and challenges of optimization of the urban-rural relationship at the beginning of the new century. This paper also further put forward the necessity, possibility and urgency of urban and rural integration.Ⅲ. The measure of the level of urban-rural integration. Based on the summary of research of the level measure of urban-rural integration, according to the inner mechanism of urban-rural integration, this paper constructed an index system of the level measure of urban-rural integration from the dimensions of space, social, economic, ecological and environmental. Taking Jiaxing City. Zhejiang Province as an example of empirical research, this paper made a quantitative research of the existing gap of various indicator measures.Ⅳ. The research of modern agriculture construction and urban-rural integration. This paper defined and distinguished the connotation of traditional agriculture and modern agriculture, and analysed and summarized agricultural development strategy change and agricultural structure innovation in Zhejiang. and also made econometric analysis of the relationship between modern agriculture development and urban-rural integration. Based on this, this paper proposed to construct system of benign mechanism in promoting modern agriculture development and urban-rural integration.Ⅴ. The research of rural new community construction and urban-rural integration. This paper refined the characteristics of the new rural community, and analysed the main contradiction in rural community modern management, and also proposed optimizating community layout, improving community environment, constructing community infrastructure, promoting community public services, and strengthening public administration.Ⅵ. The research of urbanization of farmers and urban-rural integration. This paper summarized the present situation and characteristics of migrant workers in Zhejiang Province and built factor model of migrant worker’s melting into urban society.The new findings from the research are mainly as followed.Ⅰ. Rural areas are still weak aspects of urban-rural integration in Zhejiang Province. Urban-rural institutional drawbacks become the main obstacle of raising the level of urban-rural integration.Ⅱ. The modern agricultural development is still lags behind in Zhejiang province. Speeding up to the development of modern agriculture becomes the most important factor of raising the level of urban-rural integration.Ⅲ. Rural new community construction planning lag and urban-rural dual management are the important embodiment of urban-rural gap and the "Achilles heel" of the province’s modernization. Constructing the rural community such as key village, characteristic village and eco-village become the important task of raising the level of urban-rural integration.Ⅳ. Social security and labor protection of migrant workers and their children’s educational problems are still quite prominent. Promoting migrant workers to integrate into urban society become the most arduous task of raising the level of urban-rural integration.