Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China
Learning from Chengdu
Ye Yumin and Richard LeGates
Chapter 3: The Chengdu model of coordinated urban–rural development: framework and strategy
Ye Yumin and Richard LeGates
Extract
Chengdu’s coordinated urban and rural development program is designed to produce a new way of integrating rural areas with urban areas. But Chengdu has not simply aimed at a new urbanization pattern. From the time it started its first experimental reforms in 2003, Chengdu has defined its mission as achieving Chengdu’s overall economic and social development into a form of coordinated urban development characterized by new industrialization, new urbanization, and rural modernization. Chengdu is following former President HU’s approach to scientific development.
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