Director of the Ministry of housing and construction: future or 10%| per cent of the population in Agriculture Ministry of housing _ news

Shao Haipeng

"In the long run, rural areas should get rid of ' agriculture ' is called a village, but human settlements, as well as big cities. "Yesterday, the Ministry of housing and the development of towns Secretary Zhao Hui visit China network interview section while you are online.

Scholars studying in Europe and America, who used to rural development can be divided into three phases: construction of infrastructure in rural areas phase; renovation phase of the rural environment, garbage wastewater treatment; and the third phase is the beautification of rural landscapes.

Zhao Hui said that on the whole, China's current rural human settlement in the first stage and the second stage in the late early. 40% villages in China have no central water supply. Most village roads in the village do not harden, rural waste collection rate of only 35%, sewage treatment rate of rural villages is only 9%.

"Of course, there are also some rural entered phase III in the developed world. "Zhao Hui said.

Along with progress in industrialization, urbanization, proportion of the population employed in agriculture in the future will be less and less. Zhao Hui said that the farming population decline is an inevitable trend, as to how low the bad forecast. "10% cannot be developed, United States is less than 5%. In the near future, China really farming population will drop to 10%~20%, even with the possibility of further development will be even lower. ”

However, this does not mean that 10% farmers living in rural areas and the rest to live in the city. Zhao Hui explained that the rural construction land accounted for 70% of construction land, urban construction land is 3.5 times. Can't say next 70% only live 10% of the population. "To break the urban-rural differences in institutional mechanisms, and rational distribution of resources and population movements. ”

(Original title: future or 10% per cent of the population in agriculture)

02:39 June 06, 2014 First financial daily