Urban And Rural Development Issues Discussed

To overall plan urban and rural development and advance urban and ruralintegration is the necessary tendency to break the binary urban and rural structure and toimprove the socialist market system. It is also one of the important tasks to buildharmonious socialist society and to advance the construction of new socialistcountryside. The gap between town and country is one striking problem in economicand social development. For example, the city residents and peasants have been entitledto the different treatments in income, education, medical treatment and welfare. Thebinary urban and rural structure is regarded as the important factor to cause the gap.Though the gap, especially the income gap, has once shortened since the reform andopening-up, not only the gap between town and country has been widening, but alsothe comparative gap has been quickly expanding since the center of the reform hastransferred to the city in the middle of 1980's, especially since the middle of 1990's,which has severely affected the sustainable development of our national economy andrestricted our process of modernization. The paper illustrates the overall deficiency ofpublic materials supply in the countryside, including: the severe deficiency in basicfacilities in agriculture, unsatisfactory demands of peasants for agricultural technologyand related agricultural information, the need to further perfect the social welfaresystem in countryside and the severe environmental pollution in countryside. The paperputs forward the principal ideas, goals and objectives of overall planning urban andrural development in Changzhou City by analyzing its current situation, its advantagesand disadvantages. The short-distant objective is to realize the integration of town andcountry planning, basic facilities, economic and social developments and scientific,educational and cultural undertakings and to eliminate the gap between town andcountry step by step, finally realizing the coordinated growth in town and countrywithin 3-5 years. The paper also suggests the measures in overall planning Changzhouurban and rural development: to greatly improve the capability of intensive economicsociety in countryside, to advance "the Three Centralizations", to enhance the vigor of economic society, to promote "the Three Reforms" and to quicken "the Threeconstructions".In short, the key in urban and rural development is to break the binary structure oftown and country. The core and focus is to solve "the Three agricultures". The sole is topay attention to reform on systems. It has proved that to overall plan urban and ruraldevelopment is the necessary process in implementing the principle of scientificdevelopment, building harmonious society and realizing Chinese modernization. Underthe circumstances of Changzhou, it is absolutely possible to quicken the steps of urbanand rural development and to realize in advance the goals to construct the new socialistcountryside advocated by the nation.