How to Balance the Development of Urban and Rural Integration in Central China - Based on the Investigation of the Reform Practice in Wuhan

Balancing urban and rural integrated development is the current urgent task to promote China's urban and rural economic and social development. This article evaluates the urban and rural integration level of Wuhan objectively through establishing evaluation index. The article finds out that the urban and rural integration level slightly higher than the urbanization level in Wuhan City. In the integrated process of urban and rural population, economy, life and culture, the gap between urban and rural economic development is the most obvious, the integration degree is the lowest. But the integration degree of urban and rural residents’ life is high, and the integration degree of population and culture is even. However, there are several important restrictions in current urban and rural development, including the binary household registration system between urban and rural areas, the rational development and utilization of the land, protection of farmers’ rights and interests, inadequate investment of the rural public service and the imperfect rural social security system. Then the article will analyze several important measures for cracking the balanced development of urban and rural areas from the aspects of the legal system, fiscal and organizational system.