The key to scientific understanding of urban-rural integration development is to grasp the logical relationship between rural revitalization strategy and urbanization strategy. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put "establishing and improving the system, mechanism and policy system for the integrated development of urban and rural areas" before "accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas", indicating that establishing and improving the system, mechanism and policy system for the integrated development of urban and rural areas is an important means to accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, just like insisting on giving priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas.
The integration of urban and rural development is not to slow down the pace of urbanization, nor to replace the urbanization strategy with the rural revitalization strategy. On the contrary, the rural revitalization strategy must be promoted under the framework of urban-rural integration and urban-rural integration, and should be guided by the new urbanization strategy.
Urbanization is the only way to modernization, which means the decrease of rural local population. From the perspective of population mobility and spatial agglomeration, the process of rural revitalization is bound to be the process of full development of urbanization, the process of optimal allocation of urban and rural population and the process of interactive integration between urban and rural areas.
From another point of view, rural revitalization itself also contains the elements of urbanization, and rural revitalization strategy is essentially an organic part of urbanization strategy. In the process of rural revitalization, the countryside should become a booster of "urbanization of agricultural transfer population", a new space for rural ecological towns, and a yearning place for urban residents to pursue a better life.
Some problems in the current economic and social development seem to be "three rural issues" on the surface, but the real cause lies in the city; Or the focus is on the city, but the cause is on "agriculture, rural areas and farmers". In view of these problems, it is becoming more and more difficult to solve them by adopting the method of "treating the headache and treating the foot pain", and it is increasingly necessary to innovate the path and seek a radical solution.
Establishing and perfecting the system, mechanism and policy system of urban-rural integration development and taking the road of urban-rural integration development have become urgent tasks and strategic needs for the high-quality development of late-developing agricultural areas. In accordance with the strategic requirements of "synchronization of the four modernizations", the late-developing agricultural areas will speed up the formation of a new type of urban-rural relationship that promotes agriculture through industry, leads the countryside through cities, benefits farmers from workers and peasants, co-prosperity between urban and rural areas, division of labor and cooperation, and integration and complementarity.
Realizing the integration of urban and rural areas is inevitable in the process of modernization. The experience of developed countries proves that urban-rural integration is realized in economic development, and with the continuous improvement of industrialization and urbanization, urban-rural integration is deepening. With the advancement of industrialization and urbanization, the population is gradually concentrated in cities, especially big cities, and the labor force flows across regions and industries on a large scale. Urban-rural integration is not the consolidation of the original rural population, but the integration of farmers leaving the land and moving into the new city.