Based on both?theoretical and empirical studies, this book focuses on the coordinated development and integration of urban and rural areas in China.?It suggests a hypothetical framework and conducts quantitative analyses to examine the problems of the rural economy, population migration, land transfer, and social security. Offering insightful proposals into the?measures needed to be taken in the next two decades?as well as strategic objectives?this record also attempts to account for the origins of the existing problems from historical, realistic, theoretical, and practical perspectives.