How to promote the orderly development of featured towns

Not only do we need to standardize the corrections, but we also need to provide typical examples

The picture shows a geographic information town in Deqing County, Zhejiang Province. In this case, an industrial chain covering data acquisition, processing, application and service has taken shape. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Weng Xin took

Specialty towns play a positive role in stimulating the development of new economy and driving the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. The 2019 National Characteristic Small Town Field Experience Exchange Meeting held recently proposed that, starting from the actual situation, adapting to local conditions, adhering to the characteristics of towns and industries, and promoting the orderly development of characteristic small towns

Supporting the orderly development of characteristic small towns is one of the requirements of the Key Tasks of New Urbanization Construction in 2019. The 2019 National Characteristic Town Field Experience Exchange Meeting held recently proposed to adhere to government guidance, enterprise main body, market-oriented operation, adhere to the actual starting point, according to local conditions, and adhere to the characteristics of the town, industry town, and promote the orderly development of characteristic towns.

Not a town, not a district, special mission

Specialty towns are expected to become a new platform for high-quality development of the economy, but also have the conditions to become a new carrier for the promotion of urban-rural integration and development

As a novelty, the specialty towns are the first to be explored by the local authorities, and the central government has paid great attention to them. Characteristic towns are different from characteristic small towns. Characteristics of the town is in a few square kilometers of land gathered characteristics of the industry, production and life ecological space integration, different from the administrative towns and industrial parks of innovation and entrepreneurship platform, the main connotation is the industry special and strong, functional aggregation and integration, the shape of the small and beautiful, new and living mechanism. Characteristic small towns are administrative towns with more than tens of square kilometers of land and a certain population and economic scale, and distinctive industries.

Experts pointed out that in the new era of the implementation of the new urbanization strategy and rural revitalization strategy framework, characteristics of small towns due to the characteristics of "non-towns and non-districts" to play a special role, both expected to become a practice of high-quality economic development of new platforms, but also has the conditions to become the promotion of urban-rural integration of the development of the new carrier.

"For new urbanization and rural revitalization, characteristic towns play a unique role in the integration of urban and rural areas, part of the characteristic towns is a dock between urban and rural areas, where urban and rural resources meet, especially for the countryside, the city's resources through the small towns to support and penetrate into the countryside." Feng Kui, a researcher at the China Center for Urban and Small Town Reform and Development and secretary-general of the Academic Committee, said.

"We further define characteristic towns as 'basic units of urban functions', and the integration of production, living and ecological space is an important characteristic of characteristic towns, which are both carriers carrying high-quality development and places gathering high-quality population and providing high-quality life. " Zhang Chewei, director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the role of characteristic towns in the integrated development of urban and rural areas is very prominent: characteristic towns can be flexibly laid out in urban, peri-urban and even rural areas according to the needs, thus becoming a policy tool to drive the integrated development of urban and rural areas. The investment scale of the featured town is generally in the billions of yuan or even tens of billions of yuan, if the layout of the rural areas can be radiated around dozens or even hundreds of square kilometers, driving the surrounding rural employment, the gathering of the population will also increase the demand for agricultural products, improve the efficiency of agricultural production, and become the endogenous driving force of the revitalization of the countryside.

Normative correction of the origin

Recognizing the inherent law of development, the development of characteristic towns should take the road of market-oriented operation, and there should be a real industrial support

Since 2016, some characteristic towns have been constructed in a number of chaotic and even out of shape problems. On the one hand, the number is too much, the concept is unclear, there are some abuse of the concept of false town, the lack of investment subject and did not start construction of the virtual town, the emergence of the concept of characteristic towns and characteristics of the town confuse the problem; on the other hand, the quality is not high, the characteristics of the town is not obvious, some characteristics of the town of industrial demonstration is not in place, the industrial characteristics of the industry is not distinctive, the level of the low level, the technology is weak, did not form the agglomeration effect. Some areas even exist government debt risk intensification and the seedling of real estate.

The reason for these problems, in Feng Kui's view, the main reason is that the development of the characteristics of the town did not recognize the internal law, did not recognize the complexity of the town's development, the phenomenon of blind development. Characteristics of the town is small, but "all the organs", a variety of elements gathered, a variety of functions integrated, the construction is extremely difficult.

"Some counties and municipal governments blindly proposed to build dozens of characteristic towns; some planning teams do not pay attention to analyze the various types of restrictive conditions for the development of small towns; and some enterprises have embarked on the traditional park development and real estate development of the old road." Feng Kui said.

In order to solve these problems, in December 2017, the National Development and Reform Commission and other four departments jointly issued a number of opinions on standardizing and promoting the construction of featured towns and featured small towns clearly put forward, can not be treated as a basket of featured small towns, everything is loaded, can not be blindly given to the industrial parks, tourism scenic spots, sports bases, beautiful villages, garden complexes, and the administrative towns to put on the characteristics of the town "hat". In August 2018, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the Notice on the Establishment of a High-Quality Development Mechanism for Characteristic Towns and Characteristic Small Towns, which put forward a number of standardized management measures. Since then, the construction of characteristic towns across the country has gradually returned to rationality, and the corrective work has achieved certain results.

"By paying tuition and buying lessons, the thinking is now clarified, which is conducive to the healthy development of characteristic towns." Feng Kui said.

Recently held in 2019 the national characteristics of the town on-site experience exchange meeting released data show that as of December 31, 2018, from the work of the State Council departments, two batches of 403 "national characteristics of the town" renamed the national characteristics of the town, the existing characteristics of the town to create a list of **** there are Two, respectively, the State General Administration of Sports 96 national sports and leisure characteristics of the town, the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau of the 50 national forest towns, the State General Administration of Sports eliminated the rectification of 34, 62 temporarily retained. From the work of the provinces, the provinces*** eliminated and rectified 385 "problem towns". Among them, 70 were eliminated and rectified and 996 were temporarily retained in the provincial characteristic town creation and cultivation list, 174 were eliminated and rectified in the city, county and district level characteristic town creation and cultivation list, and 141 were eliminated in the market entities naming their own characteristic towns outside the government's creation list.

The 2019 Key Tasks of New Urbanization Construction, issued recently, explicitly proposes to support the orderly development of characteristic towns. Establish a standardized corrective mechanism, carry out monitoring and evaluation year by year, and eliminate administrative towns that misuse the concept, false towns that abuse the concept, and virtual towns that lack investment bodies. Organize the formulation of a standard system for characteristic small towns, and improve the institutional mechanism and policy measures to support the orderly development of characteristic small towns in due course. Comprehensively carry out the survey and assessment of the construction of small towns with special characteristics.

Zhang Chewei believes that the characteristic small town should handle the relationship between the government and the market, the development of the characteristic small town should take the road of market-oriented operation, and there should be real industrial support, at least it should be profitable. At the same time, the government should give guidance and support from the planning and design, land, industrial policy, finance and other aspects.

"As far as characteristic towns are concerned, government departments should be encouraged on the one hand and restrained on the other." Feng Kui said the market should be encouraged to play a decisive role in the allocation of resources, and conditions should be created to allow conditional subjects to participate. At the same time, the means of constraint should be strict, and the bottom line should be adhered to, including preventing real estate, preventing small town development from triggering government debt risks, preventing land waste, and preventing the ecological environment from being damaged. These bottom lines, the government to keep.

Both set up rules and point the direction

The typical experience that has proved effective in practice will be promoted nationwide, guiding more characteristic towns to adapt to local conditions, learn from, and actively explore their own path of development

"Characteristic small town construction both set up rules and point the direction. " Zhang Chewei said.

In recent years, various regions in accordance with the requirements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and actively learn from the experience of Zhejiang, closely combined with the local actuality, and strengthen the planning leadership and policy incentives, emerged a number of distinctive industrial characteristics, elements of agglomeration, pleasant to work and live in, and energetic characteristics of small towns, for the stimulation of the development of the new economic vitality, driven by the traditional industrial restructuring and upgrading, and the promotion of the heritage of the historical and cultural conservation and so on played a The town has played a positive role in stimulating the development of new economy, driving the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and promoting the protection of historical and cultural heritage.

Not only do we need to standardize and correct, but we also need to lead the way with the typical.2019 National Characteristic Town Field Experience Exchange Meeting promoted the "first round of the national typical experience of characteristic towns", **** contains five aspects. First, the experience of Zhejiang Deqing Geographic Information Town, Hangzhou Dream Town, and Fujian Ningde Lithium Electric New Energy Town in creating a new engine for the development of emerging industry agglomeration. The second is the experience of Zhejiang Zhuji Sock Art Town, Guangdong Shenzhen Dalang Fashion Town and Jilin Changchun Hongqi Intelligent Town in exploring the new path of transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. The third is the experience of Jiangsu Suzhou Suzhou Embroidery Town in opening up new space for the citizenship of the agricultural transfer population. Fourth, the experience of Dayu Yashan Town in Jiangxi Province and Sangua Commune Town in Hefei, Anhui Province in constructing a new fulcrum of urban-rural integration and development. The fifth is the experience of Yang Liuqing Culture and Tourism Town in Xiqing, Tianjin in building a new platform for traditional culture inheritance and protection.

"This is a nationwide promotion of typical experiences that have proved effective in practice, with a view to guiding more characteristic towns to adapt to local conditions, learn from them and actively explore their own development path." Zhang Chewei believes that such measures and practices, a change in the way and means of government governance, is the practice of insisting on making the market play a decisive role in resource allocation and better play the role of the government, which is conducive to guiding the development of characteristic small towns and produce greater effectiveness.