Study on Achieving Sustainable Energy Use through the Transition from Urban-Rural Dualism to Urban-Rural Integration in China

Abstract

China's development path under “urban-rural dualism” has caused a number of socio-economic issues, which forces the state to gradually change its city-prioritized policy towards “urban-rural integration”. This paper firstly sorts out the evolution process of China's urban-rural relationship. Then taking four Prefecture-level cities as cases, this paper compares different modes of urban-rural interaction. Performances of urban-urban-rural interactions are also measured. Finally, on the basis of historical combing and empirical research, it explores the major contributors of these differences in case areas and promotion of ideas and strategies of urban-rural integration and its ways of energy use.