Optimizing Ideas and Institutional Innovations for Urban–Rural Transformation in China

Abstract

Urban–rural integration is the fundamental goal of urban–rural transformation. Revolutionizing the dualistic urban–rural system, optimizing the urban–rural development pattern, improving the social governance ability, balancing public resources allocation and coordinating the remediation of resource and environment are the main tasks of urban–rural transformation in China. In terms of the goals of urban–rural transformation, its cores are to realize the free flow and equal exchange of elements at the micro scale, the division and coordination of labor of industries at the medium scale and the equalization of urban–rural development strategies and systems at the macro scale, finally promoting the balanced development of urban and rural areas. Based on the optimizing idea of urban–rural transformation, this chapter also puts forward an optimizing framework of urban–rural transformation, including three levels of goal level, operation level and support level, and discusses six localized urban–rural transformation modes, including metropolis-driven type, development zones (DZs)-led type, urban construction-driven type, urban–rural interactive development type, TVEs-driven type, rural characteristic industry-driven type. At the operational level, the mechanism innovation mainly includes the industry-city coordinated mechanism, regional coordinated mechanism of main function orientation, village-town construction and rural development mechanism and multi-level subject overall control mechanism. Additionally, the system guarantee of urban–rural transformation is put forward from household registration system, rural land system, public resources allocation system, governance system, government performance appraisal mechanism and fiscal and taxation system.