Promoting Integrated Urban-Rural Development in the Central Urban Area of Chengdu:its Foundations,Challenges,and Pathways
Chengdu,characterized by its"large city with extensive rural areas,"serves as a pioneer in exploring the integrated development of urban and rural areas nationwide.In recent years,Chengdu has optimized the urban-rural spa-tial structure,shaped a new form of a park city,facilitated the flow of urban-rural elements,promoted the integration and prosperity of industries,and created a harmonious city where"people,city,environment,and industry"blend harmoni-ously,aiming to create a happy and beautiful life,comprehensively improving the quality of integrated urban-rural devel-opment,and continuously strengthening the foundation for the central urban area to play a core leading role.Under new circumstances,the integrated development of urban and rural areas in Chengdu's central urban area faces a series of chal-lenges,including the inherent contradictions between urbanization inertia and integrated urban-rural development,the dif-ficulty in balancing the radiation effect and the siphon effect of a mega-city,and the practical difficulties of advancing at a high level and continuous innovation.In response,the central urban area of Chengdu should take top-level design as a guide,strengthen planning integration and linkage,use industrial integration as a traction to promote orderly flow of ele-ments,improve governance integration level based on modern living conditions,and continuously expand the pathways for integrated urban-rural development.
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