Chinanews.com, Chengdu, February 27th (Shan Peng) The Information Office of the Sichuan Provincial People's Government held a press conference on "Deeply Implementing the New Urbanization Strategy to Provide Strong Power and Solid Support for Sichuan's Modernization" in Chengdu on the 27th.
Dai Yongbo, party secretary and director of the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said that by 2025, the urbanization rate of Sichuan's permanent population will exceed 60%.
In recent years, the level of urbanization in Sichuan Province has increased significantly, and the urbanization rate of permanent residents has increased from 43.4% in 2012 to 58.4% in 2022, with an average annual increase of 1.5 percentage points.
On this basis, Sichuan proposes that by 2025, the urbanization rate of the resident population will exceed 60%, and that by 2035, new urbanization will be basically realized at the same pace as the whole country.
To achieve this goal, how will Sichuan's new urbanization be improved?
It is understood that the urbanization of Sichuan Province has achieved remarkable results.
Dai Yongbo said that the quality of urbanization of Sichuan's agricultural transfer population has improved significantly, and basic urban public services have accelerated to cover all permanent residents.
The urban system structure has been significantly optimized, the pace of integration of Chengde, Meizi and capital into the city has been accelerated, and large, medium and small cities and small towns have coordinated development.
The supporting capacity of urban industries has been significantly enhanced, the urban economy is booming, and the ability to absorb employment has been continuously improved.
The quality of urban functions has been significantly improved, municipal facilities have been upgraded, and the living environment has continued to improve.
At present, the urbanization of Sichuan Province is in a period of accelerated promotion, showing some trend characteristics: From the perspective of population flow, the agricultural transfer population will remain relatively large, stabilizing at around 26 million.
In terms of spatial distribution, the urban population tends to agglomerate toward the "both ends" of big cities and county towns.
From the perspective of urban governance, there are problems such as aging municipal facilities and imperfect supporting functions in the old urban areas of Sichuan Province.
From the perspective of resource elements, the population of Sichuan Province flows frequently across provinces and cities, and the supply capacity of urban public services does not match the growing demand of migrants. Urbanization has accelerated from urban-rural relations to "urban-rural + regional" relations.
In order to accelerate the high-quality development of urbanization, Dai Yongbo said that Sichuan will optimize the urban system structure, build a strong modern Chengdu metropolitan area, improve the development level of Chengdu's national central city, and promote Mianyang, Nanchong, Yibin, and Luzhou to accelerate the construction of urban permanent residents A "?-type big city" with a population of more than 3 million, and Dazhou speed up the construction of a "type-II big city" with a permanent population of 1 to 3 million in the urban area, and enhance the development vitality of small and medium-sized cities.
In terms of accelerating the urbanization of the agricultural transfer population, Sichuan will deepen the reform of the household registration system, steadily improve the level of basic public services such as compulsory education and housing security for the non-resident urban permanent residents, strengthen employment services and skills training, and allow the agricultural transfer population to enter the city. Come in, stay in, live well.
In terms of promoting the integrated development of industry and city, Sichuan will make the city's leading industry bigger and stronger, support Chengdu to gather the headquarters economy, expand the digital economy, and develop strategic emerging industries and future industries.
Develop and expand new urban areas, build high-quality Tianfu New Area in Sichuan, improve the population and industry carrying capacity of Chengdu Eastern New Area, Mianyang Science and Technology City New Area, Nanchong Linjiang New Area, and Yibin Sanjiang New Area Provincial New Area, and explore new paths for the integrated development of "industry, city and human environment" .
In addition, Sichuan will promote the construction of new cities, increase the supply of high-quality public services, make up for the shortcomings of municipal facilities, implement urban renewal and transformation actions, and accelerate the construction of resilient cities, innovative cities, smart cities, green cities, and humanistic cities; improve the level of urban governance , Improve urban space governance, strengthen urban social governance, innovate diversified investment and financing mechanisms, and enhance the ability to guarantee funds for sustainable urban development.
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