Beijing Society for Studies in Science of Science Convened Academic Symposium on Urbanization and Land Resources
    On March 21, 2004, Beijing Society for Studies in Science of Science 
convened Academic Symposium on Urbanization and Land Resources. 
On the symposium, several issues were discussed, including urbanization 
and agricultural development, urbanization and industrial development, 
lessons of over-urbanization in some countries of Central and South 
America and Asia, urbanization and land resources and urbanization and 
system construction.
   In regard to the relationship between urbanization and industrial and 
agricultural development, as what the experts believe, those two are not 
contradictory, but unified in a high degree, according to the experience 
of most developed countries. Without the continuous development of 
industry and agriculture, there will be no foundation for the sustained 
development of urbanization; likewise, without sustained development of 
urbanization, there will not be sustained improvement of agriculture and 
industry. When industrialization is continuing at high speed, urbanization 
not only is possible to, but also should adapt to industrialization and 
keep pace with it.
   Experts pointed out that the solutions to those problems contain 
several steps below: first of all, to accomplish land resources 
privatization as early as possible so that the farmers who would like to 
settle down in city could transform their land into cash as their primary 
capital, and therefore, vacate the rural land. The second point is to reform 
basic system, so that local civilians could really possess the right to 
superviseand restrict local government, and compel the government to carry 
out urban construction scientifically which will finally push forward 
urbanization.
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