The 18th CPC National Congress set forth a development goal to build a beautiful China. Particularly,it emphasized the integration of urban and rural development as a fundamental way to solve issues relating to agricu...The 18th CPC National Congress set forth a development goal to build a beautiful China. Particularly,it emphasized the integration of urban and rural development as a fundamental way to solve issues relating to agriculture,rural areas,and farmers. Consequently,how to integrate urban and rural development,and how to construct beautiful villages under national arrangements turns into distinctive historical responsibilities of the contemporary urban and rural planners. Nevertheless,due to the profound impact of the urban-rural dual system,there has been a huge disparity between rural and urban in both construction management and planning. Simply put,we know less about the rural but more about the urban. Taking the beautiful village construction in Jiangsu Province as an example,the paper draws from the empirical practices on village planning,farmers' wishes survey,and environmental remediation,in the hope to contest current village planning and construction concepts and to initiate more heated debates on rural areas at large. It seeks a new route for village construction and rural human settlement improvement that better respects the characteristics of China's rural areas,and meanwhile more faithfully refl ects farmers' demands.展开更多
文摘The 18th CPC National Congress set forth a development goal to build a beautiful China. Particularly,it emphasized the integration of urban and rural development as a fundamental way to solve issues relating to agriculture,rural areas,and farmers. Consequently,how to integrate urban and rural development,and how to construct beautiful villages under national arrangements turns into distinctive historical responsibilities of the contemporary urban and rural planners. Nevertheless,due to the profound impact of the urban-rural dual system,there has been a huge disparity between rural and urban in both construction management and planning. Simply put,we know less about the rural but more about the urban. Taking the beautiful village construction in Jiangsu Province as an example,the paper draws from the empirical practices on village planning,farmers' wishes survey,and environmental remediation,in the hope to contest current village planning and construction concepts and to initiate more heated debates on rural areas at large. It seeks a new route for village construction and rural human settlement improvement that better respects the characteristics of China's rural areas,and meanwhile more faithfully refl ects farmers' demands.
