China News Service, Beijing, March 7 (Chen Tianhao) Recently, when introducing the government work tasks this year in the government work report, Chinese Premier Li Qiang proposed to promote urban-rural integration and coordinated regional development, and vigorously optimize the economic layout.
Deeply implement the regional coordinated development strategy, regional major strategies, and main functional area strategies, organically combine the promotion of new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization, and accelerate the construction of a regional economic pattern with complementary advantages and high-quality development.
International experts and scholars also pay attention to this hot topic.
In this regard, China News Network exclusively interviewed Berthold Kuhn, professor at Freie Universität Berlin and senior economic advisor to the European Commission, Dennis Mwaniki, executive director of the China-Africa Center of the African Policy Institute, and Kenyan think tank China-Africa Policy Lewis Ndichu, director of research at the center, explained.
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Kang Baorui highly appreciated China's achievements in solidly promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas, saying that China "strives to achieve more balanced development through strategic infrastructure investment, poverty reduction measures and social security systems. This coordinated development is crucial to promoting sustainable growth." and maintaining social harmony are crucial.”
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"China has promoted urban-rural integration through infrastructure construction," Munene said, adding that the construction of China's roads, ports and railways can promote the flow of people, goods and services between urban and rural areas. This experience provides opportunities for countries to move towards common prosperity. Learn from.
Ndishu mentioned that China promotes the integrated development of urban and rural areas through modern agricultural facilities and new energy technologies.
"China helps improve urban and rural roads and build small-scale water conservancy management and irrigation facilities, grain storage and processing facilities, renewable energy power generation facilities, and small agricultural machinery and equipment in towns and villages to provide sufficient conditions for the integrated development of urban and rural areas."
Ndishu also said that China's achievements in urban-rural integrated development can provide reference for other countries, especially African countries.
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