Economic Daily reporter Jing Guanping: Playing the chess game of integrating urban and rural planning well.

On the eve of the Spring Festival, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection in Beijing that it is necessary to strengthen the integrated planning of urban and rural areas, promote the coordinated development, integrated development, and harmonious development of urban and rural areas. Coordinated development is the key to success in playing a game of national development, and it is also an inherent requirement for achieving common prosperity. In the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, the importance of coordinated development is becoming increasingly prominent. With vast territory, significant differences in resource endowment and development foundation among different regions, the problem of unbalanced and insufficient urban-rural regional development has become one of the important bottlenecks restricting high-quality development. To solve this development puzzle, it is necessary to deepen the coordinated development of urban and rural areas, further expand development space, and better achieve integration and linkage between urban and rural areas, as well as between regions. Coordinated development embodies the unity of goal orientation and problem orientation, as it is both a means and a goal of development. In practice, urban-rural linkage and regional integration development are the two major practical paths to implement the concept of coordinated development: the former can effectively unleash the investment and consumption potential in rural areas, while the latter will promote the efficient flow of production factors across regions, helping to form a new pattern of regional development characterized by complementary advantages and coordinated development.