Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission on Issuing the “Key Tasks for New Urbanization and Urban-Rural Integration Development in 2021”

The National Development and Reform Commission on Printing and Distributing the New Urbanization in 2021

Announcement on Key Tasks of Integrating Development with Urban and Rural Areas

Development and Reform Planning (2021) No. 493

Relevant departments and agencies directly under the central and state agencies, all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and cities under separate state planning, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Development and Reform Commission, All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, China National Railway Group Co., Ltd., China Development Bank, and China Agricultural Development Bank:

??After review and approval at the second meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on Urbanization Work and Urban-Rural Integration Development Work, the “Key Tasks for New Urbanization and Urban-Rural Integration Development in 2021” will now be issued to you. Please implement it carefully.

National Development and Reform Commission

April 8, 2021

Key tasks for new-type urbanization and urban-rural integration development in 2021

??2021 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the first year of the “14th Five-Year Plan”, and a year of special importance in the process of my country’s modernization drive. In order to implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and promote the implementation of important arrangements in the “Outline” of the National “14th Five-Year Plan”, the key tasks for the development of new urbanization and urban-rural integration in 2021 are now proposed.

??1. General requirements

??Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Plenary Sessions of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Implement new development concepts, build a new development pattern, coordinate development and safety, and implement a new human-centric urbanization strategy, promote the orderly and effective integration of agricultural transfer populations into cities, enhance the carrying capacity of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, and transform the development of mega-cities In order to improve the modernization level of urban construction and governance, promote urbanization with county towns as an important carrier, accelerate the integration of urban and rural development, and provide strong support for a good start in the “14th Five-Year Plan”.

??2. Promote the orderly and effective integration of agricultural migrants into cities

??Coordinately promote the reform of the household registration system and the full coverage of the permanent population of urban basic public services, and improve the quality of urbanization of the agricultural transfer population.

??(1) Orderly liberalize the restrictions on urban settlement. Various cities should reasonably determine the conditions for settlement according to the carrying capacity of resources and the environment and the actual needs of economic and social development, adhere to the principle of stock priority, and promote the employment and living of more than 5 years in the city and the migration of the whole family, and the new life of stable employment and life in cities and towns. Key groups such as migrant workers, rural students entering schools, and those who joined the army and marched into cities have settled down conveniently. Cities with a permanent population of less than 3 million in urban areas have implemented a policy of completely abolishing the settlement restriction policy. Cities that implement the point settlement policy ensure that the social security payment period and the residence period score occupy the main proportion. The urban household registration policy should treat renters and purchasers equally, and allow the permanent residents of renters to settle in public households. Cities should plan overall, carefully design, and coordinate the work of liberalization, openness and settlement, introduction of talents, and real estate regulation and control. Promote the mutual recognition of the social security payment period and the cumulative residence period in urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas that meet the conditions. (The Ministry of Public Security, the Development and Reform Commission, etc. are responsible)

??(2) Promote basic public services in cities and towns to cover non-resident permanent residents. Encourage the expansion of the supply of degrees in public schools during the compulsory education phase when the population is concentrated in the cities, optimize the deployment of careers, and increase the number of teachers. Support areas where conditions permit to include permanent residents who have not yet settled into the scope of inclusive preschool education guarantees. Simplify the social security transfer and continuation procedures. Complete the construction of the national overall planning information system for endowment insurance. Promote direct settlement of general outpatient expenses across provinces. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Central Planning Office, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Health Commission, the Medical Insurance Bureau, etc. are responsible)

??(3) Improve the skill quality of the agricultural transfer population. High-quality subsidized training was promoted, and the target of 50 million person-times set in the vocational skill improvement action plan was completed. For the agricultural transfer population, especially the new generation of migrant workers, deepen the implementation of the “Spring Tide Action”, “Learning Dream Action”, and the new generation of migrant workers’ vocational skills improvement action, support enterprises to carry out new apprenticeship training and provide training subsidies in accordance with regulations. In light of the situation of epidemic prevention and control, we will increase the intensity of the vocational skills training program for migrant workers in a timely manner. Combining with the promotion of migrant workers’ return to their hometowns for employment and entrepreneurship and the undertaking of industrial transfers, targeted entrepreneurship skills training should be carried out. Expand the enrollment scale of vocational colleges for the agricultural transfer population. (The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education, etc. are responsible)

??(4) Improve the supporting policy system. Continue to arrange incentive funds for the citizenization of the central government. Improve the mechanism for linking the increase in the scale of urban construction land with the number of migrants from agriculture. Safeguard the rights and interests of farmers who settle in cities on contracted land, homesteads, and collective assets in accordance with the law, and support the exploration of a voluntary and paid withdrawal mechanism for the “three rights” in rural areas according to law. According to the results of the seventh national census, release data on permanent residents of cities and towns above the county level, study the establishment of a statistical release mechanism for permanent population data in urban areas, and promote normalized statistical release in conjunction with big data technology. (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Bureau of Statistics, etc.)

??3. Enhance the carrying capacity of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas

??Enhance the ability of central cities to radiate and drive the surrounding areas, cultivate and develop modern metropolitan areas, enhance the population economic carrying capacity of urban agglomerations, and form a spatial dynamic system for metropolitan areas to lead urban agglomerations and urban agglomerations to drive regional high-quality development.

??(5) Improve the integrated development mechanism of urban agglomerations. Formulate the 14th Five-Year Plan for the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. Solidly implement the outline of the construction plan for the Chengdu-Chongqing area dual-city economic circle. Study and formulate implementation plans for inter-provincial urban agglomerations in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Beibu Gulf, and Guanzhong Plain to guide the development of urban agglomerations in the province in an orderly manner. Improve the multi-level coordination mechanism and cost-sharing and benefit-sharing mechanism of urban agglomerations to improve the level of integrated development. (Responsible by the Development and Reform Commission, etc.)

??(6) Cultivating and developing a modern metropolitan area. Support Fuzhou, Chengdu, Xi’an and other metropolitan areas to formulate and implement development plans, and support other qualified central cities to take the lead in preparing metropolitan area development plans under the guidance of the provincial government. Make full use of existing railways to operate urban (suburban) trains, develop urban (suburban) railways in a scientific and orderly manner, and open up inter-city “broken roads”. Promote the joint prevention and management of the ecological environment, and build green isolation and ecological corridors between cities. Establish a normalized negotiation and coordination mechanism for metropolitan areas, and explore the establishment of a linkage response mechanism for major emergencies. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Transport, China Railway Group, etc. are responsible)

??(7) Construction of urban agglomerations and metropolitan circles on the track. Accelerate the planning and construction of intercity railways in key urban agglomerations such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and support the rational planning and construction of inter-city rail transit in other urban agglomerations with conditions. Optimize the layout of comprehensive transportation hubs, build an integrated comprehensive passenger transportation hub and a highly efficient integrated freight transportation hub, and promote seamless connection and convenient transfer of various transportation methods. Promote the “One Card” for transportation and the “One Code” for two-dimensional code. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Transport, China Railway Group, etc. are responsible)

??4. Promote the coordinated development of large, medium and small cities and small towns

??Coordinate the scale economic benefits of urban layout and the needs of ecological health and safety, promote the rational division of labor, coordinated linkages, and optimize the scale and structure of cities and towns.

??(8) Promote the optimized development of super large cities. Promote the transformation of development and construction methods from scale expansion to connotation enhancement. The functions and facilities of the general manufacturing industry, regional logistics bases, professional markets, etc. in the central urban area should be resolved in an orderly manner, as well as the over-concentrated public service resources such as medical and higher education, and the development intensity and population density should be reasonably reduced. Improve the governance capabilities of municipal transportation, ecological environmental protection and communities, and effectively solve the “big city disease”. Scientifically develop suburban satellite cities around the central city to promote multi-center and group development to achieve industry-city integration and job-housing balance. Systematic assessment and investigation of hidden dangers to improve risk prevention and control capabilities. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Emergency Management, etc. are responsible)

??(9) Promote county towns to make up for shortcomings. Accelerate the complementation of shortcomings in county public service facilities, environmental infrastructure, municipal public facilities, and industrial supporting facilities. Strengthen project planning and design, classify and design public welfare, quasi public welfare and business projects, and speed up the preliminary work of the project. Under the premise of controllable debt risks, we will increase the overall support of fiscal funds such as investment in the central budget and special bonds of local governments, and orderly issue special corporate bonds for the new urbanization construction of county towns. Improve the long-term mechanism of government-bank-enterprise docking, coordinate and guide powerful large-scale enterprises to undertake related construction tasks, attract development policy and commercial financial institutions to actively invest in medium and long-term credit funds, and use existing foreign preferential loan channels to invest. Give full play to the leading role of 120 county town construction demonstration areas, and support the construction of a batch of industrial transformation and upgrading demonstration parks in qualified counties. In conjunction with the construction of new urbanization, improve public facilities in large resettlement areas for poverty alleviation and relocation. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the People’s Bank of China, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Development Bank, the Agricultural Development Bank, etc. are responsible)

??(10) Strengthen the functions of cities and towns in border areas. Comprehensively enhance the capacity of border towns to carry population, connect urban and rural areas, and support national defense. Carry out pilot projects for urban development as a center for prospering the border and enriching the people, improve infrastructure and public services, and increase the ability to induce labor and gather people. Construct border-to- border highways, develop a number of border-to- border villages and new border towns, and guide border residents to moderately concentrate on border-to- border highways, border residents’ mutual trade points, and border settlements. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Health Commission, etc. are responsible)

??(11) Promote the standardized and healthy development of characteristic towns. Promote the full implementation of the “Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Forwarding the Opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission on Promoting the Standardized and Healthy Development of Characteristic Towns”. Unified implementation of list management, comprehensively establish a list of characteristic towns based on each province, and carry out dynamic adjustments to eliminate the inferior. Develop guidelines for the development of characteristic towns, guide the establishment of quantity control, improve quality guidance, and strengthen positive guidance and classified guidance. Coordinate typical guides and negative warnings, promote a new round of typical experiences in characteristic town construction, strengthen supervision and supervision, and rectify violations. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the State Administration of Market Supervision, etc. are responsible)

??5. Speed ??up the construction of modern cities

??Conform to the new concepts and trends of urban development, build livable, innovative, smart, green, humanistic, and resilient cities, promote urban modernization pilot demonstrations, and make cities a space for people to live with high quality.

??(12) Focus on solving the prominent housing problems in big cities. Adhere to the positioning that houses are used for living, not for speculation, take measures in accordance with local conditions and adopt multiple strategies simultaneously to stabilize land prices, housing prices and expectations, and promote the steady and healthy development of the real estate market. Accelerate the cultivation and development of the housing rental market, effectively revitalize the stock of housing resources, effectively and orderly expand the supply of rental housing, improve the long-term rental policy, and rationally regulate the level of rents. Focus on cities with large influx of people and high housing prices, expand the supply of affordable rental housing, and focus on solving the housing problems of new citizens such as the needy groups, the agricultural transfer population, and newly-employed college students. Separate plans for land use for leased housing, explore the use of rural collective construction land and idle land owned by enterprises and institutions to build leased housing, and support the conversion of non-residential housing into affordable leased housing. (Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Natural Resources, Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance, etc.)

??(13) Build a new type of smart city. Promote the intelligent upgrading of municipal public facilities, and transform terminal systems in key areas such as transportation, public security, water, electricity and heat. Build digital and intelligent management platforms such as the “City Data Brain”, promote data integration and sharing, and improve city operation management and emergency response capabilities. Fully promote the “one network management” of urban operation, and expand and enrich the application scenarios of smart cities. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Natural Resources, etc. are responsible)

??(14) Build a low-carbon green city. Comprehensively promote the classification of domestic waste, speed up the construction of domestic waste incineration facilities, and improve medical waste and hazardous waste disposal facilities. Improve the collection capacity of the sewage pipe network, promote the utilization of sewage resources, and promote the harmless disposal of sludge. Strengthen urban air quality compliance management, and promote coordinated control of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3). Promote the elimination of black and smelly water bodies in urban areas and sections of inferior Class V water bodies in key urban agglomerations. Carry out a patriotic health campaign, promote civilized and healthy living habits, and strengthen the remediation of dead ends of environmental sanitation such as back streets and alleys. Control urban greenhouse gas emissions, promote clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient use of energy, and further promote green and low-carbon transformation in industries, construction, and transportation. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Health Commission, etc. are responsible)

??(15) Enhance urban development resilience. Improve the facilities for the treatment of infectious diseases in public hospitals, improve the basic conditions for disease control, strengthen the construction of business premises and the configuration of necessary equipment, and make up for the shortcomings of the county’s public health prevention, control and treatment. Improve the ability to integrate the epidemic and the epidemic, and ensure that the newly built large-scale public facilities have the conditions to be transformed into a square cabin hospital in a short period of time. Promote urban waterlogging treatment and sponge city construction in a coordinated manner, renovate flood control facilities such as river courses, dikes, and reservoirs, and focus on the treatment of severely prone to waterlogging areas. Improve the procurement, storage and allocation mechanism for important emergency supplies and the guarantee mechanism for basic daily necessities. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Health Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Emergency Management, the General Administration of Sports, etc. are responsible)

??(16) Optimize the urban transportation service system. Deepen the construction of a public transportation city, carry out green travel creation actions, and improve customized public transportation, bicycle lanes and walking paths. Improve the parking facility system with equipped parking lots as the main part, public parking lots as the supplement, and roadside parking spaces as supplements, improve the charging facilities of residential quarters and public parking lots, and carry out innovative financing methods to support parking lot construction pilot projects. (The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Development and Reform Commission, etc. are responsible)

??(17) Implement urban renewal actions. Promote the urban renewal action in the old city, with the transformation of the “three districts and one village” as the main content of the old quarters, old factory areas, old neighborhoods, and urban villages. Accelerate the transformation of old communities. In 2021, 53,000 new buildings will be renovated, and building energy-saving renovations can be carried out at the same time if conditions permit. Explore the transformation of old factories and large-scale old neighborhoods in areas with advantages in economic development such as urban agglomerations, metropolitan areas, and large cities. According to local conditions, transform a number of urban villages into urban communities or other spaces. (The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Commerce, the Health Commission, etc. are responsible)

??Six, improve the level of urban governance

??Establish life-cycle management concepts, improve governance structures, innovate governance methods, and promote the modernization of urban governance systems and governance capabilities.

??(18) Optimize urban space governance. The three-level territorial and spatial planning of provinces, cities and counties has been compiled, and the three control lines of ecological protection red line, permanent basic farmland, and urban development boundary have been coordinated. Promote the intensive and efficient use of urban construction land, and comprehensively promote the link between incremental investment and stock revitalization. Appropriately expand the proportion of residential land supply, improve the efficiency of industrial land use, and orderly increase the blue and green ecological space. Explore the implementation of mixed industrial land supply, hierarchical development, three-dimensional development and public transportation-oriented development (TOD) models. Steadily grasp the scope of the jurisdiction of provincial capital cities and the adjustment of the scale of municipal districts. Implement the new era building guidelines that are applicable, economical, green, and beautiful, strictly restrict the construction of super high-rise buildings over 500 meters, and strictly prohibit the construction of “ugly buildings.” Delimit historical and cultural protection lines and strengthen the protection and utilization of cultural relics. (The Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Bureau of Cultural Relics, etc. are responsible)

??(19) Strengthen grassroots social governance. According to the size of the permanent population, the neighborhood and community settings and jurisdiction are optimized. Build a modern community, relying on comprehensive community service facilities to meet the needs of community residents and provide convenient and high-quality services. Guide community social organizations, social work service agencies, community volunteers, and resident enterprises to participate in community governance. Support old communities to introduce market-based property services or implement community trusteeship, social organization escrow, etc., to improve the quality and standardization of property services. (Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, State Administration of Market Supervision, etc.)

??7. Accelerate the development of urban-rural integration

??Promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas with the county as the basic unit, insist on supplementing agriculture with industry and driving the countryside with cities, promote the two-way free flow of urban and rural elements and rational allocation of public resources, and use 11 national urban-rural integrated development pilot zones as breakthrough points to promote institutional reform Policy measures are implemented.

??(20) Promote talents to work and start businesses in rural areas. Encourage localities to formulate detailed rules for talents to join the rural system, allow rural employment and entrepreneurial personnel to settle and enjoy relevant rights and interests in their place of origin or employment and entrepreneurship, and explore ways to attract talents to rural areas through investment, equity, and cooperation. Establish a part-time and part-time entrepreneurship system for scientific research personnel in rural areas, and explore the mechanism of technology shareholding and part-time part-time and part-time salary in agricultural enterprises. In-depth implementation of the science and technology commissioner system. Improve the service system for migrant workers returning to their hometowns for employment and entrepreneurship. Guide industrial and commercial capital to develop in rural areas, and cultivate a number of typical urban-rural integration projects. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Central United Front Work Department, the Central Agriculture Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, etc. are responsible)

??(21) Deepen the reform of the rural land system. Actively explore the implementation of the market entry system for rural collective business construction land, and issue guidelines for the steady and orderly promotion of rural collective business construction land entry into the market. Promote the deepening of the reform of the rural homestead system in pilot areas to take the lead in improving the homestead distribution, circulation, mortgage, withdrawal, use, income, approval, and supervision systems. Encourage rural collective economic organizations and their members to adopt methods such as self-employment, leasing, shareholding, and cooperation to revitalize idle rural housing sites and above-ground houses. (Ministry of Natural Resources, Development and Reform Commission, Central Agricultural Office, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, etc.)

??(22) Promote the extension of public facilities to the countryside. Make overall plans for municipal public facilities such as water, gas, and heat, and promote the extension to suburban villages and large-scale central towns. Promote the integrated development of urban and rural road passenger transportation, and promote the reconstruction, relocation and function improvement of highway passenger stations. Support the outskirts of the city to undertake the unraveling of the city’s professional markets and logistics bases, rationally deploy cold chain logistics facilities, distribution and delivery facilities, and farmer’s market networks in counties and villages, and smooth the channels for agricultural products to enter cities and industrial products to enter the countryside. Promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education and the integration of urban and rural areas, and promote the management reform of compulsory education teachers’ “county-managed school employment”. Implement regional registration of physicians, promote multi-institution practice of physicians, and actively develop medical consortia. Relying on the National Urban-Rural Integration Development Pilot Zone, etc., carry out pilot demonstrations of urban-rural integration development within the county. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Central Agricultural Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Education, the Health Commission, and the Ministry of Commerce are responsible)

??8. Organization and Implementation

??(Twenty-three) Consolidate local responsibilities. The Provincial Development and Reform Commission should take the lead in coordinating with all relevant departments at the provincial level to do a good job in organization and scheduling and task breakdown, and increase funding and land use and other factors to ensure support. Municipal and county-level governments must earnestly promote the implementation of tasks, implementation of policies, and effectiveness of projects to ensure substantive progress and results.

??(Twenty-four) strengthen inter-departmental coordination. The National Development and Reform Commission relies on the inter-ministerial joint conference system for urbanization work and urban-rural integration development work, and strengthens overall coordination, guidance and supervision with all relevant departments. All relevant departments shall formulate specific measures in detail, and organize and mobilize the strength of the system to make solid progress.