Abstract

As the reform pilot city of coordinating urban and rural development in Shan-dong Province, Laiwu takes urban and rural coordinative development as vital breakthrough in transforming development pattern. Laiwu put forward the new developing thought of “Six integration, three concentration, two forms of shareholding reform（stocklization of land contracted management right and emutualisation of country collective assets）and two forms of construction pattern（new agricultural cooperative and urban-rural construction land circulation）and four support systems”, preliminarily forming a new pattern with urban and rural areas coordinated, various industries integrated, society compatibly developed and disparities significantly reduced. This provides Laiwu with “A Sharing-type Integrated Development Model” with the city's own features and demonstration effect. This book makes a deep investigation and summary on the background, foundation, measures and experience of coordinating urban and rural development in Laiwu with a quantitative evaluation on its effects. Based on the research above, this book analyzes the essence and practical significance of “Laiwu Model” and raises the thoughts, essential tasks, and policies of further promotion of coordinating urban and rural development.

This book is divided into nine chapters and two appendixes. Chapter 1 “General View” provides a summary of the core content of each topic, raising the points that Laiwu should rely on the sound foundation of coordinating urban and rural development, innovate the mechanism, take the comparative advantages, and further promote sharing-type integrated development model. Laiwu should also put five strategies into practice:（1）Take the issues concerning people as the priorities；（2）Promote the interaction between urban and rural areas;（3）Promote integrated development;（4）Take innovation as the leading factor;（5）Promote development through opening up.

Chapter 2 “The Performance of Coordinating Urban and Rural Area and Evaluation on Shared Development in Laiwu” mainly focuses on the quantitative evaluation of shared development degree in Laiwu and 17 prefecture-level cities in Shandong through building up shared development index. Chapter 3 “The Model of Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in Laiwu” describes the essence and practical significance of Laiwu's coordinating urban and rural development model. Chapter 4 “Urban and Rural Integrated Development in Laiwu” analyzes the situation of urban and rural integrated development in Laiwu and its promotion strategy. From the angle of urban and rural integration, Chapter 5 “Coordinating Development of Urban and Rural Industry in Laiwu” studies the progress and strategy of urban-rural industry coordinative development. From the angle of space development, Chapter 6 “The Spatial Structure Optimization and Urban-rural Construction in Laiwu” focuses on the progress, performance and strategic choices of urban-rural spatial structure optimization and integrated development in Laiwu. Chapter 7 “The Mechanism and Features of Sharing-type Integrated Development in Laiwu” analyzes the basic features, implementation mechanism and breakthrough path of sharing-type integrated development in Laiwu. From the angle of rural property rights system reform, Chapter 8 “Exploration on Rural Property Rights System Reform in Laiwu” summarizes the main measures, effects and basic thoughts of Laiwu's rural property rights reform in the coordinated development of urban and rural area. Chapter 9 “Support System of Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in Laiwu” raises the ideas and suggestions of further promotion of coordination development support ability based on the summarizing of the support system. Appendix 1 records the results of questionnaires studies of coordinating urban and rural development in Laiwu, including questionaries analysis of villages, peasant households and peasant-workers. Appendix 2 records the questionnaires of villages, peasant households and peasant-workers.