How grass-roots cadres look at the construction of urbanization

The report of the 18th CPC National Congress put forward that we should adhere to the new road of urbanization with Chinese characteristics, improve the quality of urbanization, and realize urbanization characterized by "overall planning of urban and rural areas, integration of urban and rural areas, interaction between production and cities, economy and intensification, ecological livability and harmonious development". In practice, the tasks and difficulties faced by the construction of large, small and medium-sized cities will be different, in order to objectively understand and analyze the party (worker) secretary of the grass-roots township (street) party committee (hereinafter referred to as "the secretary of the township party committee") on the current new type of urbanization construction, as well as the difficulties and policy needs faced in the construction of urbanization. The research group of the Party School of the Lianyungang Municipal CPC Committee in Jiangsu Province conducted a questionnaire survey and random interviews with the students of the "leadership improvement" study class of the Party (worker) Party Committee Secretary of villages and towns (streets) in Lianyungang City.

The survey results show that although the current constraints on grass-roots urbanization vary from place to place, person to person and time to time, they are prominently shown in two aspects: the improvement of public service quality and the urgent need to improve urbanization construction.

First of all, four major factors restrict the improvement of urban public service quality. 39.4% of the party committee secretaries of villages and towns think that the financial revenue is not enough to meet the capital needs of urbanization construction; 31.1% of the party committee secretaries of villages and towns think that the urban population is growing too fast, and the urban infrastructure and service capacity are under great pressure; 22.8% of the party committee secretaries of villages and towns think that the government function has not been changed to the service-oriented direction in time. 34.7% of the party committee secretaries of villages and towns believe that the lag in infrastructure construction is an important factor restricting the improvement of the quality of public services in cities and towns. However, there is a big difference between townships and subdistrict offices in the factor of "infrastructure construction lags behind", with a difference of 20.1 percentage points, highlighting the importance of speeding up infrastructure construction in villages and towns.

Secondly, the construction of urbanization needs to be improved. Among the 11 options of "which aspects do you think need to be improved most if you want to create urbanization in your current town", 78.5% of the party committee secretaries of villages and towns think that what needs to be improved most is to "strengthen the planning and management of urban and rural space". The rest are "promoting urban self-development through the development of secondary and tertiary industries" (67.1%), "improving social welfare and assistance system, improving medical conditions" (53.2%). "raise awareness of eco-environmental protection and improve the living environment, ensure drinking water, air quality and food safety" (44.1%), "convenience for shopping, medical treatment and school" (44.3%), "Entrepreneurship, employment training and assistance" (32.9%), "Construction and improvement of social (community) culture" (31.6%), "Public transport" (30.4%) "carry out household registration reform" (17.7%), "strengthen the construction of low-rent housing and indemnificatory apartment" (16.5%), and "ensure urban safety" (8.9%).

From the point of view of the first three items that need to be improved most, it reflects the importance of scientific and rational planning of urbanization, the support of industrial development and the guarantee of the equalization of public service system. However, there are great differences in the demand for urbanization construction between urban subdistrict offices and township party committee secretaries. The difficulties of township urbanization construction are mainly reflected in planning (58.3% of streets, 87.3% of villages and towns). Infrastructure such as shopping, medical and school convenience (streets 33.3%, villages and towns 49.1%), industrial development support (streets 50%, villages and towns 74.5%), public transport (streets 20.8%) These conclusions show that the secretary of the township party committee faces more difficulties and pressure than the secretary of the subdistrict party work committee in the construction of urbanization.

In view of this, to promote the construction of new urbanization at the grass-roots level in the underdeveloped areas of northern Jiangsu, it is necessary to provide six aspects of public policy support.

First, advocate people-oriented, ecological-oriented, abandon the only GDP assessment method. Urbanization construction is the all-round development of economy, society, life, ecology, environment and so on. On the one hand, adhere to the concept of all-round development, improve the quality of urbanization development, and achieve coordinated and sustainable development rather than a simple speed of development. On the other hand, adhere to the development concept of "intensive, intelligent, green and low carbon" and abandon the GDP-only assessment method. The party committee secretaries of most villages and towns believe that it is urgent to improve the assessment methods for cadres, accounting for 77.2%. Therefore, we should speed up the construction of a comprehensive evaluation system for the assessment of cadres, put ecology and people's livelihood in the first place, and build ecological security areas, so as to lay a foundation for the construction of a beautiful urban development model of ecological civilization. to achieve the healthy, sustainable and harmonious development of economy, society and cities and towns.

The second is to improve the financing channels and mechanisms of urbanization and provide financial tilt and financial support. The increase in urban population will lead to a substantial increase in the demand for funds for urban social security and municipal public facilities expenditure. The shortage of funds has become the biggest constraint to grass-roots urbanization construction (96.2%), and it is also the most important policy demand for township party committee secretaries. The survey shows that 82.3% of township party committee secretaries need financial tilt and financial support in urbanization construction. From a regional point of view, street party work committee secretaries account for 75% of this demand, and township party committee secretaries need financial tilt and financial support accounting for 85.5%. For this reason, it is necessary to further improve the financial transfer payment and financial tilt orientation, provide a stable source of funds for urbanization, gradually crack the "land finance", and curb the demolition and land expropriation group events from the source. We will support the innovation of the financing mechanism for urbanization, gradually establish and improve a new mechanism for government public investment to drive private investment, and establish ways such as the combination of enterprise investment and government investment, and the combination of market operation and government supervision, so as to effectively solve the funding problem of urbanization construction.

Third, the construction of grass-roots urbanization should be incorporated into the unified planning of cities and counties to provide land policies that meet the needs of urbanization. The function of the government in the development of urbanization is to formulate a forward-looking urbanization development planning. an important part of the planning is to establish a balance mechanism in proportion to the expansion of urban area and the increase of residents. The survey shows that 74.7% of township party committee secretaries urgently need to provide support for "planning and land policies that meet the needs of urbanization construction", especially township party committee secretaries. For this reason, we should formulate and implement the urban development plan scientifically so as to improve the scientific nature of the overall layout of cities and towns. First, the overall planning of all cities and towns is incorporated into the unified planning of the city, and the cost of the planning and implementation plan is supported by the city (county) finance. At the same time, attention should be paid to the scientific connection between land use planning and township planning. The second is to make economical and intensive use of land resources, improve the land transfer mechanism, and maximize the productivity of land elements through the fundamental adjustment of land use. Third, relatively independent township policy support, land, planning procedures can delegate power to township people's governments or land offices, planning and construction stations, effectively solve the current malpractice that the highly concentrated power is not compatible with the relationship between powers and responsibilities at the grass-roots level. The fourth is to improve the guidance and compensation methods for the construction of demolition in farmer-inhabited areas; authorize the law enforcement power of illegal buildings in villages and towns or increase the support for law enforcement in villages and towns at the county level, as well as judicial support in the process of demolition.

Fourth, policy support for industrial development. Industrial development is an important support for urban development and prosperity. The survey shows that 74.5% of the party committee secretaries of villages and towns need to provide "urban industrial development policy" support. The key points and ways of industrial policy support are: first, to promote the agglomeration of characteristic industries in cities and towns and establish leading industries by combining the resource endowment, industrial foundation and comparative advantages of cities and towns; to further do a good job in the industrial planning of towns and towns. highlight the development of service parks, industrial parks and modern agricultural parks In line with the principle of cluster development, cities and towns should subdivide the market, highlight their characteristics, and form distinctive and competitive industrial clusters on large-scale agricultural products and specialized industrial products, so as to achieve characteristic and large-scale development. In particular, we will vigorously develop town industries such as the processing of agricultural products, resource development and traditional handicrafts, and speed up the development of tertiary industries such as commerce, catering, services and tourism. The second is to encourage the expansion and development of modern agriculture and provide support in the planning, taxation and funding of modern agricultural industrial parks. The third is to encourage "new citizens" to start businesses, provide financial and tax preferential support for "new citizens" to start businesses, and improve free job introductions and free entrepreneurial training for "new citizens".

Fifth, attach importance to the construction of urban infrastructure, improve the comprehensive carrying capacity of cities and towns and the construction of urban safety early warning system. The degree of completeness of infrastructure is an important reflection of the differences between urban and rural areas. The survey shows that most of the party committee secretaries of villages and towns think that urban infrastructure needs to be supported by higher levels. We should earnestly strengthen infrastructure construction and increase investment as the core to enhance the carrying capacity of small towns. We will improve the ability of disaster prevention and mitigation and the level of infrastructure such as transportation, communications, power supply, heating, gas supply, water supply and drainage, and sewage and garbage treatment, establish early warning systems for urban safety such as rain, floods, typhoons and earthquakes, and comprehensively enhance the production and living functions of cities and towns.

The sixth is to speed up the reform of the grass-roots household registration system and promote the citizenization of the agricultural transferred population in an orderly manner. Due to the obstacles of the household registration system, migrant workers who enter the city can not enjoy the same social security, education, housing and other social resources as citizens, resulting in institutional inequality. However, the survey shows that only 17.7% of the party committee secretaries of villages and towns think that the household registration policy should be reformed as soon as possible, without a deep understanding of the fetters of the reform of the household registration system on the construction of urbanization. In order to promote the citizenization of agricultural transfer population in an orderly way, the key is that the relevant reforms focusing on the citizenization of migrant workers are in place. Efforts will be made to provide compulsory education, employment services, basic medical care and indemnificatory housing to cover the urban resident population. For this reason, we should strengthen grass-roots education and training to improve human capital, establish and improve the vocational training system for migrant workers, give full play to the effect of human capital accumulation of urbanization, break the endogenous constraints of migrant workers' citizenization, establish and improve the vocational training system, strengthen the tripartite cooperation among the government, training institutions and enterprises, and form a cooperative relationship with the active participation of "government, education and industry". Establish a vocational qualification certificate system to effectively improve the level of vocational skills and employment competitiveness of migrant workers. Through the "ignition" of the government and the "addition of firewood" to the market, the construction of urbanization can be promoted based on "human urbanization".