China News Service, Beijing, March 6 (Reporter Xia Bin and Bo Wenwen) Zheng Shajie, director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said on the 6th that there is still a lot of room for improvement in China's overall urbanization rate.
At the economic-themed press conference of the second session of the 14th National People's Congress held that day, Zheng Shanjie said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's new urbanization construction has made significant progress, and the urbanization rate of the permanent population has increased from 53.10% in 2012. to 66.16% last year.
At the same time, we must also note that this is the national average. There is still great potential for urbanization in the central and western regions. There is still a large gap between the urbanization rate of the registered population and the permanent population. China's overall urbanization rate is also still very large. Room for improvement.
Regarding the key tasks this year, Zheng Shanjie said that the reform of the household registration system will be deepened, the requirements for the elimination of settlement restrictions in cities with a permanent urban population of less than 3 million will be fully implemented, and the settlement restrictions will be relaxed except for a few mega cities.
He said that we will focus on areas with low urbanization rates and large rural populations, rely on the industrial resource endowments and industrial foundations of various regions, and accelerate the cultivation of characteristic industrial clusters according to local conditions.
Promote the integration and upgrading of homogeneous and inefficient industrial parks, and pool resources to build high-level specialized industrial parks.
Zheng Shanjie also mentioned that the central city will radiate and drive the common development of surrounding cities and counties to accelerate the cultivation of a number of modern metropolitan areas.
Strengthen the interconnection of transportation infrastructure in urban areas, steadily promote the construction of rail transit networks, and speed up the smooth flow of unconnected highways and bottleneck sections.
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