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A Study On Urban-rural Integrated Of Shaanxi Province

Posted on:2014-08-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q L WeiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2269330422450296Subject:Technical Economics and Management
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As a general problem facing most of the underdeveloped countries, the unbalanceddevelopment of urban and rural areas has drawn widespread attention of the academia andgovernments all over the world. Being the biggest developing country in the world, china isnow suffering from the imbalance. The increasingly widening gap between urban and ruralareas has seriously affected the construction process of our socialist harmonious society. Tosolve this problem, at the sixteenth CPC National Congress, China’s leaders has proposed astrategic outline for balancing urban and rural development, requiring that urban and ruralareas should be considered as a whole and that we should make unified plans to achievecoordinated promotion. The limiting factors facing Shaanxi Province are: deficient investmentin the construction of infrastructure of agriculture and rural areas; widening gap in urban andrural income, and the development of rural economy is left behind; high rate of ruralpopulation and low quality of labor force; unresolved institutional factors that deter balancingurban and rural development leads to the defect in social security. Overall, the inadequateinvestment from government causes a low productivity and developmental force, and this inturn, widens the gap between rural and urban areas. Therefore, government should play a rolein balancing urban and rural development. In order to shake off the vicious cycle ofpoverty,and facilitate the development of balancing urban and rural areas, following measuresshould be taken to eliminate negative influence of those restricting factors: strengthen theconstruction of infrastructures in rural area, and improve the producing and living conditionsof farmers; vigorously develop rural economy and increase the income of farmers throughmany other ways; increase spending on education and improve the quality of ruralforce;innovate institutions and strengthen rural social security.This paper includes six sections. The first part is introduction, mainly introducing theresearch background and its meaning. It also touches upon the studies and research methodsboth home and abroad; the second part focuses on the theoretical base of balancing urban and rural development. In this section, we will introduce some relevant conceptions on balancingurban and rural development, research the evaluation methods that are currently available andthe model evaluation. Further discussions on peculiar difficulties in underdeveloped regionswill also be mentioned; in the third section, the current situation coming from infrastructure,economy, population, and institution in the process of balancing urban and rural developmentin Shaanxi Province will be analyzed respectively; the fourth part is about comprehensiveevaluation of the four factors in Shaanxi Province. An evaluation index system is designedand a corresponding model is evaluated and the results will be analyzed in detail. The fifthpart will discuss the countermeasures for Shaanxi Province on its balance urban and ruraldevelopment from infrastructure, economy, population and institution four aspects,andpropose some adapting and viable measures; the last section sums up the whole thesis.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shaanxi province, Urban and rural plan as a whole, Analytic hierarchy process(AHP), Integration
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