| The strategic thinking of coordinating urban and rural development was put forward in the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and ranked first in the 5 "overall planning". At the Third Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, it was claimed that China has entered a new development stage which require nursing the agriculture by the industry and promoting rural areas through urban development. China has also entered the phrase of transforming traditional ways of agriculture, speeding up agriculture modernization with Chinese characteristics, eradicating the Dual Structure in Urban and Rural Areas and realizing economic and social integration in urban and rural areas. It is clear that the difference between the city and countryside must be lessened and economic and social development in urban and rural areas must be coordinated.Since 2008, Hefei, Ma' anshan, Huaibei, Wuhui and Tongling were officially approved as a provincial urban and rural integration reform pilot area and studied actively to make up a set of development strategy and tactics for Anhui province. Currently, economists broadly accept that urban-rural integration is the highest stage in the urbanization on the basis of developed productive forces and marked by urban and rural amalgamation. Anhui hasn't enter such a stage, so the urban-rural integration in this essay is a gradual process and development objectives. The emphasis is on interaction and coordination between city and courtside in economic and social development, in order to speed up the integration between urban and rural areas in Anhui Province on the Initial stageUrban-rural integration as the main thread, based on the corresponding theory of development economics, regional economics, institutional Economics, econometrics and information science, this study focus on evaluating general level of urban-rural integration in Anhui Province, analyzing regional structure and summarizing policies and measures taken by pilot city:Hefei. This study strives to evaluate urban-rural integration in Anhui deeply and utterly.The general level of urban-rural integration in Anhui Province is assessed by using the PCA method. With the ideas of system analysis and comprehensive evaluation, it is concluded that Anhui is on the initial stage of urban-rural integration currently and the main problems and restricting factors that confront Anhui now are pointed out. This essay then investigates regional structure of 17 cities in Anhui Province by constructing evaluation index system which includes subsystems of economy and society. By the use of Factor Analysis and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis, two main aspects can be divided:one is economic and resident factor, the other is institutional and systemic factor. The 17 cities can e classified into 3 types, each type has the general and specific characters which indicate regional structure in Anhui Province and provide theoretical basis for recommendations. The first group includes Ma'anshan, Tongling, Hefei, Wuhui which are at the higher level. Furthermore, this essay take Hefei as a case study objective, clarify policies and measures in its pilot projects:strengthening city through industrial development, promoting intra-county economic development, accelerating modern agriculture, increasing the income of farmers continuously, improve the urbanization level and advancing the public service equalization. On the basis of normative analysis and positive analysis, this study put forward three development concepts: strengthening province through industrial development, improve the urbanization level, promoting intra-county economic development, and accelerating modern agriculture. The suggestions and measures are raised as well.In the sum, this study explain clearly the concept and contents of urban-rural integration in Anhui Province, evaluate the general level of urban-rural integration, analyze regional structure and summarize policies and measures. It has theoretical and practical significance... |
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