The Effect Of Urban-Rural Integration On Agricultural Labor Productivity: Theory And Empirical Analysis

Because of the root that causes by the formation of the planned economy period and the urban-rural division of labor caused by the two elements of urban and rural structure, China’s "Agriculture" problem is difficult to solve.The fundamental way to solve the "Agriculture" problem is to balance urban and rural areas, achieve the integration of urban and rural development; The ultimate goal of solving the problem of "Agriculture" is to realize the modernization of Agriculture; Specific measures is to take agricultural supply side structural reform, starting from the source of the elements, the agricultural labor resources, the perspective of human capital, material capital, technology and other factors of production to improve productivity and encourage technological innovation, eliminate backward, so as to effectively improve the agricultural labor productivity. Under the ground of Economy "New normal", agricultural reform must be out of the scope of agricultural and rural, take the new-type industrialization, new urbanization as the breakthrough point, coordinate urban and rural economic and social, promote flow of resources in urban and rural areas, realize the optimal allocation of urban and rural resources, so as to promote the development of urban and rural economic and social integration, and eliminate the shackles of agricultural economic development of China’s urban and rural two Yuan system structure.Firstly, based on the empirical model, this paper measures and discusses the development process of agricultural labor productivity during the period of 1995-2014 in China. Based on the output/input model and the super efficiency DEA window technology model, the agricultural labor productivity in different provinces of China were analyzed. Through the DEA-Malmquist index model, we decompose the total factor productivity of agricultural labor. this is a comparative analysis from the vertical angle of the provinces, autonomous regions and agricultural labor productivity changes in direction and magnitude, the analyzes of the driving factors of China’s agricultural labor productivity change is brief, and the decomposition results show that technological progress is the main driving force to promote the total factor productivity of our country agriculture.Then, the paper give a brief analysis of the analysis of the policy process of the urban-rural integration development and its connotation focuses on the analysis of the relationship between changes in the urban-rural integration and agricultural labor productivity, summarizes the mechanism of urban-rural integration driven the changes of agricultural labor productivity. We take the agricultural labor productivity, urban-rural integration traditional industrialization and urbanization as the core variables into the econometric model, the empirical results show that the two element structure of the traditional industrialization and city of departure from the "industry promotes agriculture, urban drive rural" theory, the traditional industrialization has restrained the improvement of agricultural labor productivity; Although the traditional measured by the size of the population urbanization attracts a large number of surplus agricultural labor force, improved the agricultural labor productivity to a certain extent, but the traditional urbanization always can’t get rid of the urban-rural dual system constraints, can’t reverse the negative effect of traditional industrialization on agricultural labor productivity. Development of urban-rural integration will not only lead to the improvement of agricultural labor productivity, but also can reverse the negative effect of traditional industrialization on agricultural labor productivity. The integration of urban and rural development promotes the new-type industrialization and the reform of the system of agricultural land, transfers agricultural surplus labor and promotes the development of new agricultural enterprises, so as to promote the moderate scale management of agriculture; what’s more is that it accelerates the introduction and technical progress of agriculture, then the infrastructure of agricultural can continue to improve. The integration of urban and rural education is conducive to investment in human capital in agriculture and rural logistics and finance can be healthy and orderly development. All these have become the specific path of the integration of urban and rural areas driving the progress of agricultural labor productivity. This paper argues that the balancing urban and rural development is to get rid of the dual structure of effective policy and realizing the integration of urban and rural development is the fundamental way to eliminate the structure of two Yuan in urban and rural areas, so as to improve agricultural labor productivity from the root and realize agricultural modernization.Finally, the paper summarizes the full text and puts forward the corresponding policy recommendations from the perspective of building a new pattern of integration, urban and rural areas and agricultural production elements, based on the conclusion of the mechanism and empirical analysis.