8. Advocating New-Type Urbanization and Promoting the Interactive Development of Urbanization and Industrialization

In the 30 years since the reform and opening up, as one of the regions with the most vibrant economic development in China, Zhejiang stayed ahead nationwide in urbanization development. Zhejiang has become No. 1 nationwide on many fronts, such as, the first farmer city, the first policy for granting registered permanent residence through the purchase of a house, the first urbanization development plan, the first urban system plan, the first plan for canceling the change from “the status of agricultural to that of non-agricultural”, the first urban-rural integration plan, the first pilot work on land for social security, the first birth of the concept of new-type urbanization in China. Zhejiang has ventured down a path towards urbanization with Zhejiang’s characteristics. Such great achievements in Zhejiang are attributable to continuous innovations in its philosophy of urbanization, increasing benign interaction between urbanization and industrialization and constant practice in urbanization.