Chen Xiwen: the coordination between urban and rural areas is to enable people to move between urban and rural areas.

BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) Guiyang (Huang Hua)"The highest level of coordinated urban and rural development is to allow people to choose freely between urban and rural areas." Chen Xiwen, director of the Central Agricultural Office, said in Guiyang when preaching the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee that the reason for the uncoordinated development of urban and rural areas is that superior resources are concentrated in cities, leading rural people to migrate to cities in order to obtain these resources.

Chen Xiwen is a famous expert on agriculture, rural areas and farmers in China. He has been paying close attention to rural issues. On November 11, the "China Floating Population Development Report 2015" released by the Floating Population Department of the National Health and Family Planning Commission said that by 2020, China's floating population will gradually increase to 291 million, of which about 220 million are agricultural migrants.

"The saying that cities make life better is not complete, and well-built rural areas can also make people yearn for it." Chen Xiwen pointed out that at present, China's rural resource elements are constantly flowing out, and there is no new factor injection that can drive rural development, resulting in the current situation of uncoordinated urban and rural development. If rural infrastructure can be built completely, farmers can enjoy the same services as cities in rural areas, and he may not leave rural areas.

Chen Xiwen thinks: "Coordinated development of urban and rural areas is not to make rural and urban areas become the same, but to require the government to provide equal services to rural and urban areas. Rural resources can meet the needs of people living in rural areas, and people can meet their own development needs whether in urban or rural areas. This is truly coordinated development, and the proposal of the 13th Five-Year Plan also reflects such requirements."

The 13th Five-Year Plan proposes that in the next five years, coordinated urban and rural development will be promoted, institutional mechanisms for the integration of urban and rural development will be improved, and equal exchange of urban and rural elements, rational allocation and equalization of basic services will be promoted. Promote the extension of urban public services to rural areas, improve the policy system supporting farmers 'income growth, and enhance the endogenous motivation for rural development.

Chen Xiwen said: "Guizhou has a good ecological environment. After so many years of development, great achievements have been made in the construction of ecological civilization. More importantly, highways connecting cities and villages have been built. Villagers have hope. Their positive and upward mental outlook makes it possible for Guizhou's rural areas to be as beautiful as cities."