Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph ›› 2014, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 97-107.

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New Urbanization: The Return of Humanism in Urban-rural Relations

ZHANG Wen-ming   

  • Online:2014-09-15 Published:2014-10-02
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Abstract: Emphasizing that urbanization is the urbanization of people, the new urbanization, from the policy’s view, will objectively lead to the change of identity. In the context of the complicate urban-rural relations in a century, the new urbanization has profound social consequences. It tried to solve the issues in the institutional stratification of the right of citizens and farmers and establish an “egalitarian society with citizenization”. The relationship between urban and rural areas, which actually equals to the “combined” relationship of human and nature deducted by the capital in the industrialization and urbanization, is the symbol of moving toward the social rationality from economic rationality in the human society. The respect of “people” in the new urbanization strategy is considered as a returning to the nature of “citizenization”: urban-rural relations essentially are the human relations. The process from competition to combination in the development of urban-rural relations is also the process to equality by dissolving the artificial social stratification and respecting citizenship.