Reporter: Gao Rui, Deputy Party Secretary and Chief of Fangsi Town
　　As a key town in the state and Shandong Province, Fangsi town has a powerful economy, a good mass base, small population, intensive villages and a great potential of land development. It is a typical exemplary to take Fangsi town as a pilot to promote the new urbanization. After years of practice, Fangsi town has formed new rural layout with  a core of small town and the support of 6 new communities. The land and human resources have been released. The industry, agriculture and trade logistics industry have made great progess, and people's life  have dramatically changed. On this basis, Fangsi town further proposed that by the end of 2017, the town residential areas will form nine settlements layout with one town and eight districts to realize the three-level of the city to the town, the town to the district and the district to the village urban and rural coordinative development path. Fangsi town's urbanization process may be used as a representative of the urbanization in the northwest plain areas.
　　Fangsi town is situated 15 kilometers west of Yucheng City  with an area of ??140 km2, 110,000 mu cultivated land, 62 communities (villages) and  a population of nearly 70,000 people, and it is the first town exceeding more than 200 million yuan of industrial and commercial taxes in Dezhou City, one of the center towns in Dezhou City. The town's transportation is very convenient. 316 Provincial Road runs across the town from east to west, connected to 101 Provincial Road and 308 National Highway. It is 15km from the town residential area to Yucheng station of Beijing-Shanghai Railway, 17 km away from Yucheng Entry of Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway and 37km away from Jinan International Airport.
　　Currently, the established urban area of Fangsi town has expanded from 1.2km2 in 2011 to 2.5 km2. The population of town and new communities have increased from  8,000 people in 2011 to 25,000 people, and the urbanization rate has reached 36%, among them, 1,400 people have been employed in urban industrial enterprises, 5,000 people  in have been employed the agricultural park and 3,200 people are engaged in business services in the township or new communities. The town's industrial and commercial taxes  reached 240 million yuan in 2012 and 410 million yuan in 2013. The local fiscal revenue reached  280 million yuan in 2014. Fangsi town has been successively approved for national and Shandong provincial two-stage reform pilot town, state-level ecological town, national population and legal administration of family planning model town, the provincial ecological civilization town, greening model town, Shandong 100-town construction model town, the pilot town of Shandong economic developed town administrative system reform and the provincial powerful economy town listed by the provincial One Lap and One Belt strategy.
　　I. Accurate Positioning, Scientific Planning
　　In 2010, Yucheng Municipal Committee proposed to break through Fangsi strategy to build small towns by urban construction thought and standards and coordinatively layout the town and settlements in urban-rural integrative view. Fangsi town seized the opportunities to regulate overall plan of Fangsi town by the combination of the city's overall plan, started road framework system construction and the education health window system construction and began to building the first town residential area – New City Community, meanwhile, Xingzhan village began to build the first rural settlement in the city. In 2012, Dezhou Municipal Committee concentrated new rural construction to the concept of simultaneous construction of two areas to promote new understanding of the new urbanization concept in the township level, achieve natural intensive urbanization and realize the nearby local employment through community to the park, the park to the community the coordinated development of two areas, and complete substantive breakthrough of farmers' lifestyle. Since then, Fangsi town's  urbanization process has been guided by the idea of simultaneous construction of two areas, clutching two lines of the industrial park construction and new community construction with high starting point, high standard construction and high efficient promotion. Fangsi town revised the original planning and scientifically planned small towns construction and the entire community layout; Shandong Provincial Institute of Construction Planning and Design Co., Ltd. has carefully compiled General Urban Plan of Fangsi Town. The town's planning area is 5.2 km2. Expressly build ecological town. It is positioned to create the sub-center of Yucheng. It is divided into five functional areas and four vertical and three horizontal roads frame system will be launched. Based on the promotion of urban and rural planning, industrial layout, infrastructure, ecological environment, public services and the construction of six integration, Yucheng Municipal Committee and Municipal Government make great efforts to gather population, projects and other core elements, improve education, health, trade, service and other ancillary facilities, form a center of town residential area and establish a new urbanization pattern suported by new communities. All of us have reached a consensus on building Fangsi town into a  new-style town with comprehensive function, prosperous economy, rational layout, engineering facilities and beautiful ecological environment and formed a joint force.
　　II. Implement Large-scale Industry, Solid Foundation
　　All previous Fangsi town's Party Committees and Governments have consistently adhered to the idea of establishing the town by the industry, developing the town by the industry, taken the expansion of the industrial park as a basic link in simultaneous construction of two areas, firmly grasped the big projects, never wavered the determination of industrial development and set up the plannings. Currently, the Four-above companies reached 75, of which 56 considerable-scale enterprises, initially formed five major industrial clusters of the biological, equipment manufacturing, green food, energy generation and new-type building materials. The major distinctive projects are settled in Yucheng provincial high-tech zone and take chance to develop. Currently, the  town's enterprise Tongyu Heavy Industries, located in the high-tech zone, has constantly improved the industrial chain. 5 projects, such as the large-scale steel castings for 600,000 kwh power plant have been conducted. It became the national-level technology center, and it has been leading the city's tax revenue; Bailongchuangyuan newly introduced an annual output of 10,000 tons of soluble dietary fiber project; the newly introduced Sichuan Haoji Liuliangmian project and Huo's high-end lubricant project have been started. Fangsi town set up Dezhou High-tech Industrial Park, Hi-tech Industrial Park in the west of the town's Yinhuanggan and both sides of 316 Provincial Road to attract the mechanical processing, logistics and other quality-oriented projects. It forms two core drivers and cross development pattern with Yucheng High-tech Park. Fangsi Industrial Park will be built into new economic growth pole of Yucheng, attracts people gathering by the projects, injects the lasting powerful force Fangsi town's urbanization. Currently, the larger Fuquan Steel in the Park newly  introduced 600,000 tons bar production line; Two financial projects of Hanfang Investment and Fengming Investment are running well; Jinde Building Materials Industrial Park Project has been completed and put into operation; Supply and Marketing Logistics Trade City Project has been started; SINOHYDRO ngineering Corporation and Hanergy Company photovoltaic power generation comprehensive utilization project is planned to complete and  generate the power this year.
　　III．People-oriented, Gathering Elements
　　The core of simultaneous construction of two areas is to prompte the population to small town and new community with good infrastructures and functional services by the changes of living conditions and industrial form. In this process, we want to let the farmers live a life of urban residents, constantly improve the construction of five systems and build a dynamic space:First, four vertical and three horizontal roads frame system. In recent years, the investment has been continuously increased. According to the city's main thoroughfares standard, we have completed four vertical and three horizontal 6km town road frame and finished the groundwater network, power grid, greening and lighting engineering in high standard. The planning expands the industrial park space, five major functional areas of the town are becoming more clear and perfect, reserve enough space for greening and cultural facilities and expand the development space of the industrial park to further enhance the town bearing function. Second, social livelihood system. Simultaneous construction of 7 new communities with a total area of 530,000m2. 3500 households in 35 villages has been placed and it accomodated 10,000 residents. According to the requirements of plan construction, management support, relocation, land circulation, community management five regulation, new community are well equipped with water, electricity, heating, gas and other facilities, which become the most demolition villages, the most merging communities, the greatest promotion and the most satisfying town in Dezhou City. 4 million yuan has been invested to build a provincial standard Nursing Home. the rural old-age service system shall be formed by the center of Nursing Home and suplemented by community day-care centers and rural mutual happiness institution.Third, the cultural leisure system. The cultural leisure system was established by a core of town cultural service center and the support of the township cultural landscape and village cultural yards in each community center ; 10,000m2 leisure park and 17,000m2 cultural square were built by the integration of multiple cultural elements, which greatly enhanced the quality of small towns. The square dance and other fitness entertainment activities are generally carried out in each community and cultural square of the central villages. Fourth, the trade logistics system. 2km Commercial Street with comprehensive facilities and  beautiful surroundings was built, meanwhile, Yuxi Trade City was upgraded to attract the settlement of more than 200 merchants. The newly introduced Xin Chen Supply and Marketing Logistics Trade City, covering an area of 120mu, will become the agricultural products three nearby counties, and comprehensively upgrade urban business services after the establishment. Fifth, window education system. 5 million yuan was invested in provincial standardized kindergartens and 110 million yuan was invested in provincial standardized high school, and they will be gradually put into use after the establishment to achieve the concentration of superior educational resources.
　　IV. Improving Infrastructure, Optimizing Management
　　The core goal of community building is to optimize the allocation of public resources and improve the people's life quality. On the basis of the supporting infrastructures such as water, electricity, roads, lights, and so on borne by the town's  finance, Fangsi town has tried its best to integrate land increase and decrease index and other policies resources to minimize the financial burden of the people and create comfortable living conditions for the people. With the provincial administrative system reform opportunities, according to the actual needs of small urban construction management, Fangsi town rationalized the institutional setting, made great efforts to build effective public service platform, and significantly increased community management. It pioneered  the construction of over 300m2 public service hall, providing one-stop all the agriculturial services; established small town construction management office of Fangsi town, set up Fangsi town's city inspectors squadron and established two professional teams of an environmental cleaning and greening maintenance. The urban management is in line with the city. Garbage transfer stations are built in each community  to achieve the garbage community gathering, town transportation, municipal disposal, Xingdian community is the sole standard community in Dezhou City with sewage treatment and waste disposal facilities,. After the first residents moved in each community, then the property management office was set up to provide professional cleaning and maintenance services. Measures on property management assessment and evaluation was introduced for professional, fine and standard property management.  Community Residents Convention was developed to guide good habits. Combined with rural cultural activities, build public platform and create community culture to achieve the clean environment, orderly management and harmonious relationship. As it is a quality improvement year of  the community-building in 2015, according to five-nization eight-connect eight-own standard, Fangsi town has gradually improved the community service center and business, education, culture, health, safety, greening and other ancillary projects. Xingdian community service center has been put into use. Binghe community service center is under construction. Xingdian primary school and kindergarten are ready to start.
　　 V. Choose the Good and the Powful one, Build the Park
　　In the premise of ensuring the people's interests, Fangsi town has created the models, looked for powerful capital support, selected high-value modern agricultural projects and attracted local people to participate in the operation, regulated the large-scale circulation and  establish modern agricultural demonstration zones along both sides of 316 Provincial Road, the cultivated land in the south of 316 Provincial Road have been transferred into the Park. Since 2013, Fangsi town has invested 150 million yuan, implemented one land consolidation project, formed 50,000 acres of contiguous high-standard farmland and 2.8 acres of transferred land, and formed four distinctive agricultural industrial belts: First, 3,000mu Hanergy photovoltaic power generation aquaculture integrated industrial Park; Second, 2,100mu Ruyi Lake eco-tourism development area; Third, ??10,000mu Zhang Jinming quality fruits and vegetable picking area; Fourth, 3,000mu Xingzhan animal husbandry farming areas and green city flower nursery planting area, and lay a solid foundation for national food security production base. Since 2014, more than 50 customers are willing to invest in agricultural park in Fangsi town. Currently, we are talking about a dozen high-quality agricultural projects. After the land is transferred into the agricultural park, more than 8,000 persons have achieved double incomes of land rent and park worker's wage.
　　Although there are still weak industrial base and poor township integration in the process of Fangsi town's simultaneous construction of  two areas,  it is a process by the core of people urbanization, and the citizenization of new farmers, large-scale modern agriculture, integrated industrial development, equalization of public services, rural management socialization, and it is a process led by the government to orderly promote the synchronization realization of the production and lifestyle changes, industrialization, urbanization, informatization and agricultural modernization.
　　Next, Fangsi town will thoroughly implement the Spirit of the18th Central Committee of the CPC and the Third and the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC, in accordance with national, provincial, Dezhou city new urbanization important deployment planning, with good agricultural conditions and good working base of Fangsi town, establish and improve sound development institutional mechanisms and policy measures of Fangsit town, and strengthen Fangsit town's sustainable development capacity, overall carrying capacity and radiation capacity to realize the unified economic, social and ecological benefits, and change agricultural transferring population with low-end residential, low quality and low production pattern, and then truly achieve the development of city by the industry and the movement of  peopleby the industry, and strive to form a local  new urbanization path in the less developed regions by the city to the rural, the combination of rural and villages, the integrated development .
　　Expert Reviews
　　Wang Sijing: Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director-General of Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, Director-General of International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment
　　Wang Bingchen: Senior Counselor of the State Council, Deputy Director of CIUDSRC
　　Niu Fengrui: Vice Chairman of China Society of Urban Economy,
　　Thomas Hart: Chief Expert and Coordinator of Sino-European Smart City Partnership Project
　　Wang Sijing: Fangsi Town Case is a Typical of New Rural Construction
　　Urbanization is one of the greatest causes faced by our generation. It integrates urban areas with rural areas, which marks a new milestone of human civilization. A large number of cities and towns in China have good planning and construction, and  profound cultural and economic heritages, such as Beijing, Xi'an, Nanjing and other cities. They have been built after careful planning and construction, and their functions are very excellent; in addition, we also have warm, harmonious rural towns, such well-known Wuzhen and other towns. However, due to historical reasons, now the poverty and backwardness have been occurring in our rural areas and townships, a great contrast with the big cities, so we shall not only build and transform the old cities, build livable cities, but also construct a new countryside. Fangsi town provides us with a good complement, which is worth our learning from. They've grasped the accurate positioning, scientific planning, park development coordination principle in construction, which can be  regarded as a typical of new rural construction.
　　Chinese people has a wonderful dream for thousands of years to live and work in contentment. Now we push forward new urbanization construction. Its core idea is how to make our farmers to live and work in contentment here. In general, to construct a livable town firstly requires good ecological environment, harmonious public service and excellent cultural educational facilities. Meanwhile, new urbanization also has a wide range of employment and business environment, where it comes to a community, others are industrial and agricultural areas. These three areas constitute the internal driving force for future development of Fangsi town, and they must be well built. Thus, if the residents love this town, even if they have been living elsewhere, they may return after several decades. Take me as an example, although I am already over 80 years old, I still often recalled the  time of studying at old-style private school and remembered the ponds and  hills  in our countryside.
　　I have a few suggestions for Fangsi town: First, the town industrial structure should integrate local resources, environmental and traditional specialties industries so that we can pay enough attention to ecological industry, special industry and the tertiary industry. Second, we should pay attention to introducing high-quality living conditions. As far as I know, the groundwater in Dezhou area may cause a lot of problems. Therefore, the water quality and water rescources shall be guaranteed. In addition, environmental function problems, such as flood, drought, soil salinity and other issues are worthy of attention. These issues should be be coordinatively considered before we build here to  a good livable place.
　　Finally, I heartfully wish Fangsi town can achieve greater success and make greater contributions!
　　Wang Bingzhen: The Exemplary Significance of Fangsi Town
　　Gao Rui's report on Fangsi town's new urbanization construction is wonderful, meanwhile, Wang Sijing academician also made very specific recommendations, which touched me deeply: I felt that the exemplary significance of Fangsi Town as a typical case of promoting new urbanization. Five development strategies are summarized from Fangsi Town case, they are accurate positioning, scientific planning, big industry, solid foundation, people-oriented, gathering elements, improve the facilities, optimize the management, choose the excellent and the powerful one, construct the park. I think that in these five experiences ,accurate positioning, scientific planning is the most crucial point, because a high starting point, high standards and strict requirements will very importantly support the latter part of construction, investment attraction and other works.
　　As far as I know, a lot of measures have adopted in economic construction in Shandong Province, starting from the high standard planning, which is very admirable. I am in geology research and has participated in a lot of work related to Shandong Province. When Comrade Zhang Gaoli served as the Secretary of Shandong Provincial Committee of the CPC, he proposed to the goal of restoring Jinan's name of Spring City. I took a few counselors for research at that time, and I wrote some proposals in this aspect. Last year I had an inspection tour of Shandong Jinxiang ecological construction work, they have made great efforts, it was very successful, I specially publish their materials after summary. So, if it comes to the specific recommendations on the development of Fangsi town, I give two points from my professional point of view: First, make efforts to solve the problem of water; Second, particularly focus on ecological construction issues.
　　Niu Fengrui: Fangsi Town case is of universal Significance to Promote Rural Modernization
　　The case we saw today is a typical rural modernization, where is the power of rural modernization? Urbanization is the most prominent at this point, so I said this is a typical sense. There are no two identical leaves in the world, and Fangsi town's typical experience can not be copied, but the basic experience it provides, the mode of rural modernization driven by industrialization and urbanization,  is of universal significance. Based on this, according to my profession, I proposed two guidelines to discuss with you.
　　First, today's theme of the Summit is new urbanization and land use. What is the city? The city is  a social formation with intensive and large-scale gathering of population and industries  in a certain space, and the city is corresponding to rural areas. It has always been our slogan rural urbanization, which is actually not accurate, it strictly should be called rural modernization,  because if the rural is developed into a city, then it is called the city rather than the countryside. How to understand rural industrialization? I personally think that the essence of rural industrialization is the rural areas providing land for industrialization. If the rural industry has formed a scale and formed a city through positive interaction between urbanization and industrialization, and that is another concept. So what is the urbanization? The essence of urbanization is a large-scale gathering process of the rural population moving to urban, the process of rural population turning into urban population, a process of rural population transferred, immigrated and integrated into urban. I think the most important connotation of new urbanization now advocated by us is the city to the town and urban and rural residents equitable sharing of urbanization results. What is the premise of the city to the town? It's the powerful city, the first development of the city, urban and rural residents equitable sharing of urbanization results, and rural residents not only include residents with land acquisition and relocation, but also include those residents away from the suburbs. In the past, once we had an industrialization development , it has inevitably caused pollution problems in rural areas, but now it is different, we should develop both urban and rural areas. So I have a conclusion, if you want to get a higher standard of living and the same income of urban and rural residents, then the urban consumption shall be more saving than the rural one, because centralized residence has improved the investment efficiency of public infrastructures with a natural and corresponding increase of people's social levels. It is the first point I want to say.
　　Second, the land problem. Land system is our basic system, China's land system is urban-rural dual system, but our goal is to urban-rural integration, both of which are contradictory. Till now, how to solve this problem is not on schedule. China's urbanization is now in the land structure great transformation period, urbanization land expansion is not only along with the occupied rural land, but aslso accompanied by and the reconstruction of land utilization structure and land revenue, and the distribution of land revenue  and other core issues. On the land uitlization issue, we are faced with both scarce resources and the system, policy constraints, such as the binary system of land, increase and decrease index land policy, etc., these are the problems of land policies. On land interests issues, incremental urbanization land and rural construction land, the latter is greater than the former with a substitution relationship. On this issue, Faangsi town's approach is worth us practice. But the real problem is that our urbanization policy lags behind, we do not have policies to realize space replacement. Therefore, urbanizination land shall be intensively used not only to meet the reasonable urbanization land, but also not pose any threat to China's food security. Now there is a formulation called rural collective land entering into the market. I have published some different views, I am here again to remind you that if the rural collective land enters into the market, then the next our existing urban single land system will be changed into dual land system. Now the urban society is a dual structure - citizen and rural migrant workers. If the rural collective land enters into the market, then in the case of unsolved citizenization problem, the ternary structure problem of urban society will arise, namely the traditional citizens, rural migrant workers and people owning land property rights.
　　In addition, we may also face a lot of risks. First of all, we are in a period of great changes in the social structure. The rural collective is as a regional community, the identified problem of its members qualifications has bothered us all the time; at the same time, the rural population has been significantly reducing. Every household member is changing as well, weddings and marriage, illness and death, these are  the difficulties for the management. The second risk is moral risk of village cadres. The third risk is the market risk of collective asset management. We shall be especially careful to deal with rural land issues due to all therisks.
　　Thomas Hart: Smart City Allows People to Experience a Better Life
　　Today, I attended this meeting as a smart city expert. From my professional perspective, I want to say, whether you are from the local government or national government, you should keep in mind: No matter what kind of regional level, it is the residents' living environment can become more intelligent. Smart City, this new vocabulary is so popular,  because it can solve all the problems in new urbanization you just mentioned, and bring more social welfare and better living conditions for people.
　　Whether the central government or local governments need to think about a question: what kind of environment do our residents really want to live in? From different levels, it is not the same to understand this concept. For example, in Europe, due to its rapid urbanization and many urban population, the problems encountered and the emerging situation are different from China's current situation. Over these past years, because of the development of urbanization, the urban population in Europe has increased by 35%, and all the urbanization resources have been continously growing by a proportion of a larger percentage. The problems they faced are not that what the residents migrating from rural to urban want, but what they may create for themselves, for the whole urbanization and  for the socity in the development of urbanization. In this process, the government plays a very important role to become more comprehensive and more specific about social service and public service  fuctions, so that people can enjoy the convenient living and services in every corner of the city, such as medical care, education or even entertainment and so on.
　　As a policy-maker, as a urbannization worker, for the above development, we can think from two levels. First, to meet people's needs, constantly radiate from the city center to the suburbs and gradually expand the scope of public services. The government can help citizens to live a better life through high-tech or e-government approach; at the same time, through the construction of schools, kindergartens, hospitals and other public service facilities, so that people may enjoy public services. If the policy-maker does not adopt the method of  radiateing from the city center to the periphery, the city  center can be more attractive, so residents are more willing to come to the city center, as it is the same with the content mentioned by the examples in Lyon. Furthermore, take my country——Germany as an example, there is a very important feature that people need not go downtown to enjoy the high-tech resources, they can also enjoy WIFI in livable rural environment. To remotely control or remotely work by the high-tech makes people's lives more convenient. This is what I said about smart city.
　　Smart city construction requires government support, for example, strengthening infrastructure construction, strengthening the high-tech development, so that people can enjoy the convenience of resources from downtown to the suburbs. And in order to do this, the government must not be alone. Firstly, we must understand in what kind of environment the residents want to live in. Secondly, we must cooperate with all the related stakeholders, industry, and even other regional governments in neighboring areas to improve the infrastructures and make every effort to create such a living environment.