On The Coordinated Development Of Urban-Rural Areas

China puts up obvious dual economic structure, which leads to a tremendous gap between urban and rural residents; they have big different treatments in the income distribution, the consumption structure, the family wealth, health care, education and other aspects. The urban-rural gap results in a series of problems such as serious segmentation between the urban and the rural, more conflicts, lag of economy development in the rural, which has hindered sustainable economic development and social stability and advancement. As a center of the west coast of the strait city, although in recent years, Xiamen has made remarkable achievements in economic, the urban-rural gap is becoming greater. Great gap between the urban and rural has led to uncoordinated economic and social development of the whole Xiamen City, how to narrow the urban-rural gap and coordinate the urban-rural development is an important task to build a harmonious society in Xiamen. Therefore, taking Xiamen for example to research on the coordinated development of urban-rural areas will not only help meliorating the urban-rural gap in Xiamen, but also have a tremendous economic and social effects on Fujian province, the southeast coast in China, even can provide a good practice experience to the national urban and rural economies development. Based on the research of others, this paper intends to take Xiamen for example to discuss the present situation of the economic and social gap in urban and rural areas, the causes of the economic and social gap in urban and rural areas and how to coordinate the urban-rural development.The main part of this paper consists of four chapters:Chapter Two provides a survey on the research of urban-rural gap, the paper's research methods and practical significance.Chapter Three takes Ximen for example to summarize the main performances of urban-rural gap, as a conclusion the author finds the urban-rural gap in Xiamen is becoming greater, and point out that it's necessary to narrow the gap. Then, chapter three analyzes the relevant factors for the urban-rural gap. Chapter Four summarizes the experiences of the coordinated urban-rural development from developed countries, developing countries and developed areas of China, and give enlightenments to the coordinated urban-rural development.Chapter Five still takes Ximen for example and builds econometric models to forecast the trend in the income gap between urban and rural residents in the future. Then, based on the research in chapter three and chapter four, this paper proposes the general idea and political recommendations of narrowing the urban-rural gap and coordinating their development.