How to Promote Urban-Rural Integration through Comprehensive Land Consolidation:New Perspective Based on Urban-Rural Partnership
Urban rural integration is an inevitable requirement of Chinese path to modernization,and comprehensive land consolidation is an important policy tool to promote urban-rural integration.Understanding the impact mechanism of land consolidation on urban-rural integration from the origin of urban-rural relationship adjustment has important theoretical significance.Introducing a new perspective of urban-rural partnership,combined with the concepts of comparative advantage and latecomer advantage in development economics,this paper attempts to construct a new theoretical explanatory framework for the impact of comprehensive land consolidation on urban-rural integration,and uses the first pilot project of city-wide comprehensive land consolidation-a typical case of Ningbo city-as evidence.The results shows that:(1)Urban rural partnership is a collaborative development between urban and rural areas,emphasizing equal cooperation to enhance the respective advantages of specific interests of both parties and jointly promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas.(2)The comprehensive land consolidation involves the flow of elements between urban and rural areas at different stages,based on enhancing the comparative advantages of rural areas and overlaying the advantages of rural latecomers,to establish urban-rural cooperative partnerships.Among them,the former is a universal path,while the latter is a selective path with a certain threshold.(3)The Andong renovation area of Qianwan New District is one of the first 11 demonstration areas in Ningbo city.The comprehensive land renovation of the entire area first enhances the comparative advantages of rural agriculture,ecology,and low-cost living in the area,forming modern science and technology agricultural parks,rural ecological agriculture micro vacations,and other urban-rural cooperation relationships.Subsequently,the latecomer advantage formed by the addition of new rural functions has formed a new type of urban-rural partnership based on the spillover of residential and living needs of the population in urban industrial agglomeration areas.Research conclusion:the urban-rural partnership provides a new theoretical perspective for explaining the promotion of urban-rural integration through comprehensive land consolidation,which can enrich the relevant theories of comprehensive land consolidation and provide reference for practice.
comprehensive land consolidationurban-rural partnershipurban-rural integrationcomparative advantage and latecomer advantageNingbo cityurban and rural public governance