| Urban and rural areas are two important components of modern society, how to handle the relationship between them is the main line through our social development and is also an outstanding problem need to resolve. Since the founding of new China, it has divided the implementation of urban and rural management system, resource policy severely tilted to the city, resulting in the widening gap between urban and rural areas, forming a dual economic and social structure. Although the reform and opening up the rural reform has achieved remarkable results, urban and rural socio-economic structure has undergone profound changes, the urban-rural dual system has not fundamentally changed, and there are growing gap trend. Eliminate the urban-rural dual structure, forward the process of urbanization has become a very long period of time in the future development priorities. So, along with National Congress Party proposed urban and rural economic and social development strategy, indicates that China has started from the urban and rural dual economic structure to changes in urban and rural integration.Papers takes the urban-rural integration development of Shaanxi Province for the research object, development economics, regional economics and urban and rural development theories as a guide, state the connotation and theoretical foundation of the urban-rural integration. In the analysis of dual economic structure in Shaanxi Province and the Evolution of the status of urban and rural development based on, by building comprehensive index evaluation system of urban and rural integration, and principal component analysis and cluster analysis of the region a measure of the level of urban-rural integration, revealed a long time hindered the development of deep urban-rural integration, from economic and social development and government security point of view, put forward in Shaanxi province's urban and rural economic and social development policy recommendations. The paper is divided into five chapters:Chapter 1, In the introduction part of this paper describes the background, purpose and meaning, summarizes the research achievement, states the ideas and methods, finally put forward the innovation of the paper.Chapter 2, to sum up and summarize from the concept, content, coordinated development of relevant theories and issues of the urban-rural integration.Chapter 3, measure the intensity of dual economic structure of Shaanxi Province in 1978-2007 use a comparative labor productivity, dual contrast factor and dual contrast factor indicators, analyses the urban-rural dual economic structure evolution history in Shaanxi Province and the uncoordinated status of urban and rural development.Chapter 4, Discusses the evaluation method of urban and rural integration: Principal component analysis and cluster analysis theory, as the technical groundwork for the empirical part. In accordance with the principles of regional, comparability, scientific to select indicators, to build urban-rural integration indicator system from space, population, economic, social, ecological, to measure the level of integration of 10 cities for Shaanxi Province, to analyse the measure result finally.Chapter 5, Paper considers the status of urban development, rural issues, low level of development of township enterprises and small towns, and other factors slow the development of integrated development of urban and rural areas in Shaanxi Province. Combined with the actual situation in Shaanxi Province, proposed break the structure of dual economic and promote the urban-rural integration. |