Can "Comprehensive pilot start" promote urbanization?

These visible benefits may cause some places to blindly create a "city" in order to be "superior", thus affecting the sustainable development of the economy.

Recently, media reported that 11 ministries, including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and the Ministry of Housing and Construction, jointly issued a comprehensive pilot notice on the country's new urbanization, requiring all provinces to select cities and towns at different levels that meet the requirements and submit them to the National Development and Reform Commission before the end of August.

The pilot content focuses on exploring the establishment of a cost-sharing mechanism for the citizenization of agricultural transfer population; diversified and sustainable urbanization investment and financing mechanisms; innovation of administrative management and reduction of administrative costs; reform and improvement of rural homestead system.

There is no unanimous conclusion in public opinion whether the comprehensive pilot project can accelerate urbanization.

It can reduce the risk of urbanization.

This "divide and rule" approach has been agreed by some media that the pilot project will minimize the risk of urbanization. "County, town and new town have always been the most basic and stable administrative units in China, and their advantage is that they can reduce the cost of urbanization and the risk of social reform."

In recent years, many provinces and regions, including Anhui, Zhejiang, Ningxia, Hunan, Sichuan and other provinces and regions have explored the relevant aspects of the pilot content, proving the above statement. Taking the withdrawal mechanism of homestead as an example, many problems have been exposed in the pilot areas, such as public suspicion that after the withdrawal of homestead, it will be reduced to construction land and a profit-making tool of the government; if you withdraw from homestead, farmers who work in cities may be homeless. this kind of problem has been deeply questioned by public opinion. But on the other hand, the related problems have emerged one after another and accelerated the process of solution, which is easy for the government to achieve the maximum degree of "seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages".

The supporting system determines the effectiveness of the pilot.

The comprehensive pilot targets will focus on changing towns into cities, selecting established towns with a population of more than 100000, and carrying out pilot projects of a new model of establishing cities. This led to the concern of public opinion, some netizens joked that "farmers have no money, it is useless for you to change the town into a province."

As reported by the media, after the establishment of a city, the land system, household registration system, fiscal and taxation system, and public service system will naturally change from the standard of "town" to that of "city". If we just change the name without changing the "medicine", the further development of the "town-level city" will still be bound by the town-level administrative system.

In addition, the transformation of towns into cities may also lead to vicious local competition. After the reform of the city, the administrative level of officials has been upgraded, the quota for urban construction land expropriation has been increased, and they can even independently determine the collection and tax rates of urban construction taxes. these visible benefits make it possible for some places to blindly create "cities" in order to be "superior." affect the sustainable development of the economy.

Therefore, the key to the success of the pilot depends on the improvement of the supporting system.