Policies and Countermeasures Ensuring Rural Restructuring

Abstract

With the influences of globalization and implementation of the national strategies on industrialization, urbanization, informatization and agricultural modernization, the changes of human resource, land resource and capital allocation have brought about many problems and challenges for the development of rural China. These problems and challenges are protruding in the following aspects: rural human resource allocation takes on the trend of low level and the mainstream of rural development is weakening; non-agriculturalization, non-grain preference and abandonment of farmland use together with the derelict and idle rural housing land result in low efficiency of rural land use; unfair urban-rural allocation of capital and its structural imbalance gradually weaken the self-development ability of rural China. Rural socio-economic development and optimized allocation of rural resources are vital to rural restructuring. As such, the author argues that it is necessary to restructure the contours of government intervention framework in rural economy and society to realize the optimal allocation and effective management of rural critical resource elements. This can be achieved through promoting the bidirectional flowing of urban-rural development elements, pushing forward the reform of rural land property rights system, deepening the reform of rural financial system, supporting land consolidation, and improving related policy and technical systems of rural restructuring planning. However, the smooth implementation of above policies and countermeasures lies in the scientific evaluation on the role of industrial and commercial capital invested into the countryside as well as the rational view on the socio-economic and ecological values of land resource allocation.