Experence and Inspiration -----from UK’s Ways of Narrowing the Gap between Urban and Rural Area By Samson 16/02/2012 contents I The Main Experience of UK’s countryside construction II The inspiration drawn for Shanghai’s integration between urban and rural area The Main Experience of UK’s countryside construction ● Unique development of small towns ● The highly organized agricultural production Unique Development of Small Tow The construction of small towns To improve the countryside To lessen the environment differences among urban and rural area ◆ The scientific investment mechanism The government will invest a batch of public facilities and make some demonstration development first, then to attract the social capital. ◆ ◆ The protection of ecological environment Green belts must be built around the towns. It is said that the deputy-premier’s permission must be obtained if using the green land for development. Garbage The BedZED collection of London system The BedZED of London is the world example of carbonbalanced ecological community. What impressed me also is the classified garbage collecting system. ◆ ◆ ◆ The completed public facilities Rodina Hotel The planning and construction of communications, hospitals, schools, commercial sites, culture places has been scientifically researched. Earlston, where we live, is quite convenient. ◆ ◆◆ The protection of history and culture ◆ The buildings of more than 50 years history are not allowed to be demolished. The highly organized agricultural p The organizational production of agriculture To increase the income of farmers To narrow the income gap between urban and rural dwellers There are about 500 cooperatives with more than 2 million farmers as membership and 5000 million pounds annual turnovers. Advantage Ⅰ: The farmers joined the cooperatives can choose to do the agriculture. They can not only obtain the wages but also the land rent income. Advantage Ⅱ: The farmers can also give the land to the cooperatives to obtain the land rent income and engage them in other business. Advantage Ⅲ : The cooperatives have fixed sales channels and priceprotection mechanism. The inspiration drawn for Shanghai’s integration between urban and rural area The Current Status: ● The gap of infrastructure and public services ● The gap of income level My Suggestions: To speed up the construction of small ● towns To develop the leading agricultural ● enterprise To speed up the construction of sm ◆ To better the environment We should pay attention to the construction of public green land, the collection and disposition of sewage and garbage in the rural area, the protection of history and culture. Qi Bao ancient Town, Minhang,Shanghai ZhaoJia ancient Town, Minhang,Shanghai ◆◆ To enhance the infrastructure We should enhance the construction of communications and commercial facilities, so as to make the rural dwellers' life more convenient and to attract the urban dwellers move to countryside. Extend road to every village Extend internet to every village ◆◆ ◆ To complete the public services We should enhance the construction of education, public health and cultural facilities and extend the good resources of urban area to the rural area. To develop the leading agricultural The government should better the related land, taxes and employment policies. ★ Encourage the local agriculture companies ★ Attract other leading agriculture companies We can increase the organizational level of agriculture production so as to increase the profits of agriculture and the income of farmers. It will be a long and gradual process to narrow the gap between the rural and urban area, but we will make unremitting efforts on it. Fighting ! Thanks everyone, especially to my tutor--- Mr Russell THANKS Welcome to China Welcome to