Measures to Coordinate Urban-Rural Development of Chongqing and Assessment of Their Implementation:A Case Study of Jiangbei District

Coordinative urban-rural development has been identified to be the national strategy. Various efforts have been put into practices,and a series of achievements have been made by researchers. But still there are so many problems those need to be explored and solved. Taking Jiangbei District, a typical developed area in Chongqing City, as the study area, the authors make efforts to examine the measures put forward by government in the process of coordinating urban-rural development in Chongqing City. Those measures include the policies in economic development, social policy, and urban-rural plan, etc. Both positive and negative impacts of the measures on rural area are assessed, and a comprehensive model for the coordinative urban-rural development in Jiangbei District is constructed. The authors argue that at present the coordinative Urban-Rural development practice in Chongqing is of a government-dominant model, in which the market forces and public participation are relatively neglected.