Research On Institutional Innovation For Promoting China’s Urban-rural Integration

Urban-rural integration is a strategic procedure that must be built into the process of promoting industrialization, urbanization and modernization, which must break the existing urban-rural dual structure based on our national condition, and should regard the urban and rural development as an organic whole through the institutional innovation to realize the collaborative development of urban and rural areas in the economic, political, cultural, social and ecological aspects, etc..There have been imbalanced development, large gap and inharmonious relationship between city and countryside for a long time, the fundamental reason for which lies in’the household registration system’and related institutional arrangements. The achievement of the real amalgamation of city and countryside, namely realization of the integration of urban and rural areas, requires a further reform, especially the institutional innovation.With the title Research on Institutional Innovation for Promoting China’s Urban-rural Integration, this dissertation explores the institutional innovation framework of city-country integration and its countermeasures, focusing on the coordination of rural and urban development and the breaking of institutional barriers.The dissertation includes a brief introduction and six chapters.Chapter One is devoted to the relevant theoretical overview of the institutional innovation of urban-rural integration. In this chapter, it firstly makes definition for institutional innovation of urban-rural integration, on the basis of which the theory of institutional innovation is proposed and discussed. Secondly, it conducts analysis and interpretation on relevant theories of the urban-rural integration institutional innovation at home and abroad, including relevant theories from Marxist classical writers and from generations of leaders of the Communist Party of China, and related discussion of scholars throughout the world.Chapter Two focuses on’institutional analysis of urban-rural integration reform’. This part scrutinizes historical evolution process of urban-rural integration institutional change since the reforms and open-door policy in1980’s, giving priority to the theoretical analysis on current institution and predicament in the process of urban-rural integration reform, firstly summarizing the experience in pilot reform of urban-rural integration, and secondly analyzing the current institutional predicament in urban-rural integration reform from the perspective of the institutional improvement, the institutional shortage, and the lag of institution reform.Chapter Three talks about’experience of urban-rural integration institution in developed countries and inspiration for China". Through the analysis on theories of urban-rural integration and practice patterns in several developed countries, and the experience summarization, it elaborates on the inspiration for urban-rural integration institution reform and institutional innovation in China.Chapter Four presents’modifying factor and evaluation indicator in promoting urban-rural integration institutional innovation’. First of all, it makes analysis on modifying factors in promoting urban-rural integration institutional innovation from non-institutional factors, perfection degree of the current institution, and the demand for new institution; secondly it proposes designing principles of new evaluation indicators for urban-rural integration institutional innovation, with quantitatively indicator design for urban-rural integration institutional innovation from the amalgamation degree of economic, social, population and sustainable development of city and countryside.Chapter Five deals with’general principle, idea and framework for promoting urban-rural integration institutional innovation’. Firstly, it advances that promoting the urban-rural integration should be based on objectivity, fairness, proportionality, people-oriented doctrines and institutional innovation bias to the countryside; secondly, it discusses the general idea on promoting urban-rural integration institutional innovation, including targeting, guidelines and routing; thirdly, it proposes the framework for promoting urban-rural integration institutional innovation from seven directions, such as the development of urban and rural industry and employment, etc..The last chapter gives an analysis of’suggestions on promoting urban-rural integration institutional innovation in China’. It puts forward that, firstly, the basis of promoting urban-rural integration institutional innovation is to break the binary social structure of city and country; secondly, the key to institutional innovation is to address the problems facing China’s agriculture, rural areas and farmers and to narrow down the urban-rural gap, which will ultimately improve people’s livelihood; thirdly, the guarantee for institutional innovation is to complete policies, strengthen legal system construction, and deepen government reform.