December 19, 2023 14:33**: China Economic Net-Economy**
The first Politburo meeting held a few days ago proposed to coordinate the comprehensive revitalization of new urbanization and rural areas. **The Economic Work Conference further clarified that it is necessary to organically combine the promotion of new urbanization with the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. In the context of sufficient and stable supply of agricultural products, the meeting listed the unremitting work of "three rural" as one of the nine key tasks next year, releasing a strong signal.
From rural China to urban and rural China, the countryside is different from the past. Walking into the village, the influence of urban civilization is everywhere. The people who are in the midst of it are undergoing profound changes. To solve rural problems, we must find answers not only from the villages, but also from the cities. To promote rural revitalization, we should not talk about rural areas on the basis of rural areas, but strengthen the use of industry to supplement agriculture, use cities to lead rural areas, and accelerate the formation of a new type of urban-rural relationship between industry and agriculture. On the one hand, we should promote a new type of people-oriented urbanization and promote the two-way flow and equal exchange of urban and rural elementsOn the other hand, we should give priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas, and stimulate the endogenous power of rural areas with policy tilt. Only by properly handling the relationship between urban and rural areas, integrating design and promoting them together, can we realize the integration and interconnection of urban and rural economies and complement each other's functions.
Urbanization is the process of population transfer from rural to urban areas, accompanied by the aggregation of factors and industrial upgrading. At present, about 10 million peasants are citizenized every year, and nearly 300 million peasant workers have become an important part of industrial workers. The urbanization rate of China's permanent population has reached 652%, there is still a lot of room for improvement, and the urbanization rate of the registered population is still 175 percentage points, making up for this gap will release huge social demand and smooth the economic cycle of urban and rural areas. It should be noted that the state did not mention "urbanization" from the beginning, but "urbanization" in order to promote urban-rural integration. Chinese peasants want to go to the cities, but it is impossible for all of them to go to the cities, let alone all of them. In fact, allowing farmers to advance and retreat between urban and rural areas is the special advantage of the urbanization path with Chinese characteristics.
Looking back at rural development, many achievements have been made in recent years, and grain production has been bumper and farmers' incomes have increased rapidly. Needless to say, however, the efficiency of agriculture is still lower than that of non-agricultural industries, and the income gap between urban and rural areas is still very large. However, no matter how industrialization develops, the basic position of the countryside has never changed. Agriculture is an industry in which nearly 200 million people are employed, and rural areas are the permanent homes of nearly 500 million peasants. The countryside is a rich rice bowl, a broad market, a labor force, and a blue ocean for industrial transfer. Ensuring supply, income, ecology and stability is the strategic rear of building a new development pattern. At present, the countryside is facing great changes unseen in a thousand years, and grasping this variable will grasp the key to steady and far-reaching development.
To promote rural revitalization, we must always adhere to the integrated development of urban and rural areas and act according to objective laws. Only in this way can the village enjoy the convenience of modernity and conform to the rural texture, integrate into modern civilization and retain historical traces.
Position the industry well and follow the laws of the industry itself. Food security is the basic, and we must rely on science and technology and arable land to do everything possible to stabilize and increase grain production capacity. Do a good job in the value-added articles of the industrial chain of "grain head and food tail", "animal head and meat tail" and "agricultural head and worker tail", improve the interest connection mechanism, and let farmers share more value-added benefits. Aiming at the requirements of high-quality development, agriculture should shift from the orientation of increasing production to the orientation of improving quality, implement the concept of big food, and expand characteristic industries, so that the countryside can present a scene of bumper harvest, prosperity of six livestock, and integration of three industries.
Find the right entry point and respect the law of rural evolution. At present, the spatial distribution and industrial pattern of urban and rural areas have emerged in an intermediate form of "both urban and rural". It is necessary to take the county as the entry point for the integrated development of urban and rural areas, promote the overall planning of the county in terms of spatial layout, industrial development, and infrastructure, and promote the optimal allocation of public resources in the county. The revitalization of the countryside is not to build the countryside like the city, but to give full play to the unique functions of the countryside, pay attention to the local taste, and reflect the characteristics of the countryside. In the same way, some "de-ruralization" practices in the process of urbanization in some places are not in line with national conditions.
Step on the beat and grasp the law of reform and development. Deepening rural reform is an important magic weapon for rural revitalization. The more rural revitalization is promoted, the more reform needs to be revitalized. It is necessary to persist in establishing first and then breaking down, upholding integrity and innovation, respecting the creation of the grassroots and the masses, and giving peasants more adequate property rights and interests. Proceed from reality, think about the peasants, work steadily and steadily, do not blindly seek speed, and strive to make breakthroughs in key practical matters. For example, improve the living environment in rural areas, and improve the happiness value of farmers with a high environmental appearanceAccelerate the equalization of basic public services, and improve the satisfaction of the masses with the convenience of life.