Urban-rural relations is an important relationships must be well handled in sociingist society construction, whether the urban and rural development is coordinating, urban-rural relationship is harmonious, is directly related to social stability and the reality of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. However, because of the strategy of giving priority to the development of heavy industry and rural household registration system,the gap between urban and rural development has continued to expand. Although the Party’s three generations of central collective leadership with Comrade Mao Zedong,Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zeming at the core has explored a series of relations, but there was not any significant effect. The Party’s Sixteenth National Congress made the strategy of urban and rural development and provided a new method of dealing with the relationship between them.The exploration of the Urban and Rural Development since the Party’s Sixteenth National Congress has its solid theoretical basis and practical basis. Marx’s and Engels’s ideology about the relations of rural and urban provided a theoretical source; The exploration of the Party’s three generations of central collective leadership with Comrade Mao Zedong,Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin at the core not only has its deficiencies, but also has its merits side. And it will provide effective warning to the urban and rural development afterwards.From the Urban and Rural Development to putting forward the long-term mechanism, to building the comprehensive reform pilot area, the exploration of the Urban and Rural Development since the Party’s Sixteenth National Congress has experienced positioning, preliminary exploration and practice three stages. Meanwhile, the exploration has some significant achievements. For instance, the agriculture obtain rapid development; the urbanization rise to a high level; the gap of income and consumption between urban and rural get some containment, etc.Furthermore, the exploration of urban and rural development contains some basic experience, such as developing the productive forces to lay the material basis for urban and rural areas; improving the top-level design to improve system security and rural co-ordination; making the "three rural" as the center to clear the key point and difficulty; making the urbanization as the main method and making a scientific plan of it; promoting the equalization of basic public services in urban and rural areas; building the comprehensive reform pilot area, etc. |