A new type of urbanization for common prosperity

New-type urbanization has been a major national strategy put forward and implemented since the 18th National Congress of the CPC. Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism and an important feature of Chinese-style modernization. At present, China has completed the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieved the first centenary goal, but the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development between urban and rural areas and between regions is still prominent, and promoting common prosperity for all people has become an urgent task of development. How to promote the common prosperity of all people in the construction of new urbanization to achieve more obvious substantive progress, we need to clarify the common prosperity effect of new urbanization in theory and practice.

The new type of urbanization has the effect of common prosperity

New urbanization is a process of reform and development accompanied by the development of new industrialization, information technology and agricultural modernization, the orderly concentration of China's agricultural transfer population to cities and towns, the continuous optimization of the spatial layout of urbanization, the continuous enhancement of urban sustainable development capacity, and the gradual improvement of urban and rural integration development level. It is human-centered urbanization and reflects the new development concept of urbanization. The urbanization of western capitalist countries is based on economic rationality, individualism, material space and technological thinking, and only regards the agricultural migrant population as a production factor of industrialization and urbanization. However, China's new urbanization is not confined to the capital logic of spatial production, but organically combines capital recycling with ensuring and improving people's livelihood, and constantly realizes people's yearning for a better life in the process of urbanization. From a theoretical and logical point of view, common prosperity can be divided into two dimensions: the "overall" prosperity of high-quality development and the "common" prosperity of development fruits shared by all people. Prosperity includes not only material wealth, but also spiritual and cultural wealth and ecological and environmental wealth. Therefore, the common prosperity effect of new urbanization includes at least four aspects.

First, the economic growth effect of new urbanization. The new type of urbanization is the urbanization of high-quality development, and promoting high-quality economic development is its essential requirement. From the supply side, the new urbanization, which continues to improve the quality of citizenization of the agricultural migrant population and optimize the spatial layout of urbanization, promotes the sustainable integrated development of education, science and technology, and talents, and makes cities and urban agglomerations become the "locomotive" of innovation-driven development. Different from the "serial" modernization of Western countries, the "parallel" overlapping development of new urbanization and new industrialization, information technology, and agricultural modernization is more conducive to the transformation and upgrading of industrial structure, and promote high-quality economic development. From the perspective of demand, the new urbanization is the urbanization with a huge population scale, the citizenization of agricultural migrants and the integration of urban and rural development accelerate the investment demand and resident consumption rate, continue to stimulate the potential advantages of China's ultra-large scale market, promote the domestic economic cycle, and strongly attract global resources, making China's economy more resilient and dynamic.

Second, the spiritual and cultural effects of new urbanization. The new type of urbanization is the coordinated urbanization of material civilization and spiritual civilization. It not only pays attention to the upgrading of urban "hardware", but also pays more attention to the inheritance and development of urban "software". New urbanization should not only build a modern "new type of city", but also protect and carry forward the traditional fine culture and continue the historical context of the city. Transforming the mode of urban development, building beautiful cities with historical memory, cultural context, regional features and ethnic characteristics, and creating a unique urban spirit are the practical requirements of new-type urbanization. Promoting the citizenization of the agricultural migrant population is the primary task of new-type urbanization, and the "semi-citizenization" and "amphibious" status of migrant workers is the difficult problem of the citizenization of the agricultural migrant population. Therefore, strengthening the humanistic care for migrant workers and enriching their spiritual and cultural life are important contents of new-type urbanization. This requires adhering to the integrated development of urban and rural areas, continuously promoting the standardization and equalization of urban and rural public cultural services, and advocating the coexistence and common prosperity of different spiritual cultures, and each has its own beauty.

Third, the ecological and environmental effects of new urbanization. The new type of urbanization is the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. By coordinating the layout of the three major spatial arrangements of production, life and ecology, we will promote the transformation of urbanization from the expansion type to the enhancement type of connotation, so as to achieve intensive and efficient production space, livable and moderate living space, and beautiful ecological space. Facts have proved that the new urbanization has fundamentally changed the extensive development mode of China's cities and completely reversed the trend of deterioration of the urban and rural ecological environment. The people-centered new type of urbanization adheres to green development and benefits for the people, and takes the creation of a good living environment as its central goal. It has effectively promoted the formation of green and low-carbon modes of production, lifestyle and consumption, helped build cities into beautiful homes where people and nature coexist in harmony, and vigorously promoted the construction of a beautiful China.

Fourth, the income distribution effect of new urbanization. A new type of urbanization is one in which the fruits of development are shared by the people, so that both urban and rural residents can share the fruits of modernization. People-centered new urbanization pays more attention to protecting the rights and interests of rural migrants and achieving equal access to basic public services. The new urbanization and the innovation of the "three rights separation" system of rural land not only meet the requirements of the development of social productive forces, improve the efficiency of agricultural operation and economic benefits, but also protect the rights and interests of farmers who settle down in the city, and increase their disposable income. In the process of Chinese-style modernization, the new urbanization will lay the foundation and provide impetus for the in-depth advancement of the rural revitalization strategy by improving the quality of citizenization of the rural migrant population and promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas, and effectively promote the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas. The new urbanization will help promote the inclusive sharing of urban and rural public services, break the vicious circle of "low income - low human capital investment - low income" among farmers, and effectively block the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

We will promote high-quality development of a new type of urbanization

The new type of urbanization is the urbanization of common prosperity for all people, and promoting common prosperity through the new type of urbanization is the only way to achieve the Chinese style of modernization. Based on the new era and new journey, to promote the high-quality development of new urbanization, we need to optimize the mechanism of common prosperity and enhance the effect of common prosperity.

First, we will improve the quality of citizenship for rural migrant population and expand the middle-income group. Migrant workers, rural college graduates and vocational college graduates are not only the main groups of citizenization, but also the important sources of middle-income groups.

First, improve the supply mechanism of basic public services in cities and towns, with the full implementation of the residence permit system as the starting point, promote the full coverage of basic public services in cities and towns by permanent residents, and constantly improve the standard of basic public services.

The second is to improve the labor skills and quality of the rural migrant population and enhance their ability to find employment and start businesses. On the one hand, we should improve the quality of higher education and vocational education, vigorously promote school-enterprise cooperation, the integration of industry and education, and improve the high-quality employment system. On the other hand, we should expand the vocational skills training for the new generation of migrant workers, and strive to improve the pertinence and effectiveness of training.

Third, consolidate and improve the overall level of social insurance and insurance coverage, improve the national unified social insurance and medical security information service platform, and fully implement the responsibility of enterprises to pay social insurance fees for migrant workers. Fourth, we will improve the employment mechanism for equal participation of workers in market competition, improve the mechanism for reasonable wage increase and guarantee, and strengthen the protection of the labor rights and interests of rural migrant workers.

Second, we need to optimize the spatial layout and form of urbanization and promote coordinated development among regions. China's vast territory, promoting regional coordinated development is the inevitable requirement of realizing common prosperity.

First, strengthen the supporting and guiding role of comprehensive transport networks, improve backbone interregional multimodal transport channels and networks, build integrated transport networks for urban agglomerations and comprehensive urban transport hubs, and improve connectivity between small and medium-sized cities and small towns and neighboring large and medium-sized cities.

Second, we will promote new-type urbanization with urban agglomerations as the main form, optimize the internal spatial structure of urban agglomerations, focus on fostering and developing urban agglomerations in the central and western regions, and promote the coordinated development of urban agglomerations in the East and West.

Third, relying on big cities with strong radiation-driven capacity, we will foster and develop modern metropolitan areas, and improve the mechanism for the coordinated development of urban clusters and metropolitan areas. We will strengthen the radiating and driving role of big cities on small and medium-sized cities and small and medium-sized cities on small and medium-sized cities, and build an urban pattern of coordinated development of large, small and medium-sized cities and small towns. The fourth is to promote the urbanization construction with the county as an important carrier, make up for the shortcomings and weaknesses according to local conditions, and strive to enhance the county's factor gathering ability, industrial undertaking ability, population attraction and radiation ability to drive the countryside.

Third, we need to improve the quality of urban development and build new types of cities that are livable, green and humanistic. We will accelerate the transformation of the mode of urban development, integrate the concept of putting people first, carrying forward the cultural context, promoting the spirit, and green and low-carbon into the whole process of urban development and governance, and enable urban residents to share the ecological, environmental and cultural wealth.

First, strengthen urban ecological restoration and environmental protection, expand urban ecological space, and build urban green corridors according to local conditions.

The second is to anchor the goal of reaching the peak of carbon and carbon neutrality, and accelerate the construction and popularization of green production and lifestyle.

Third, we will strengthen the inheritance, innovation and diversified development of urban culture, integrate history and culture with modern life, and integrate local culture with foreign culture, so as to create a distinctive urban spirit that meets the requirements of The Times.

The fourth is to actively cultivate and practice the core values of socialism, strengthen the quality of citizens and the construction of spiritual civilization, and fully show the humanistic care of the city.

Fourth, promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas and achieve "equal value" between urban and rural areas. With counties as the basic units, we will promote the free flow of factors of production and the rational allocation of public resources in urban and rural areas, so that urban and rural residents can live a life of "difference without disparity" and "different but equal value".

First, in line with the trend of integrated urban and rural development, we will advance a new type of urbanization and rural revitalization in a coordinated manner, reshape a new type of urban-rural relations, and form a community of high-quality urban and rural development.

Second, improve the system and mechanism for the free flow and equal exchange of urban and rural factors, promote more flow of factors to the countryside, further promote the coordinated development of urban and rural industries, and promote the diversified development of rural economy.

Third, we will actively expand the space for urban and rural residents to increase their incomes through employment and entrepreneurship, expand channels for rural residents to increase their incomes, promote sustained and steady growth of rural incomes, and accelerate the narrowing of the income gap between urban and rural residents. Fourth, we will continue to use industry to supplement agriculture and urban areas to promote the integrated development of urban and rural governance, infrastructure, and public services, and continue to enhance rural residents' sense of gain, happiness, and security.