Media talk about the difficulty of urbanization： urban population swarms into small towns and people go to empty buildings

　　The Spring Festival is coming. After 80s, Ronaldinho decided that he would never go back to the countryside for the Spring Festival this year. He was born in a village in Dayi Town, leiyang city, Hunan Province. After graduating from junior high school, he went to work in Guangdong, and later his family bought a house and moved into Leiyang City. "Almost every household in our village group bought a house in Leiyang City, and some elderly people stayed in the village." He told reporters.

　　Ronaldinho is a microcosm of farmers in Leiyang. According to a survey conducted by the reporter of Economic Information Daily in the past year, under the tide of "farmers buying houses and entering cities", some central and western cities that "grew wildly" are bloated, the pressure on urban public services is increasing, and the financial burden is unbearable. In contrast, most towns and villages are accelerating their decline.

　　Urban swelling: the "tide of entering the city" under the prosperity of real estate

　　Leiyang, located in central China, is a county-level city with the largest urban area and the largest urban population in Hunan. This is "a ‘ Savage growth ’ The city that got up ",some people commented on the urban development of Leiyang.

　　Leiyang is a key coal-producing county in China. Since 2000, with the rise of the domestic real estate market, Leiyang has set off a climax of entering the city, with farmers as the main force, and 70% of the commercial houses in the urban area are purchased by farmers. In some villages, almost whole groups and villages of farmers went to cities to buy houses on a large scale. With the large-scale expansion of Leiyang city, the population has risen sharply.

　　A local civil servant in leiyang city told reporters that there are 40 villagers’ groups where his hometown is located, and only 6 households live in the countryside, all of which have gone to the city. It is understood that those who polish shoes on the streets of Leiyang and drive motorcycles to carry passengers are basically farmers who have bought houses in urban areas.

　　Many cheap "small property houses" have also lowered the threshold for Leiyang farmers to enter the city. During the development of villages in the early years, the planning and management of the local government once lagged behind, and many village collectives and villagers after land acquisition and demolition adopted the policy of "building where there is land and blooming everywhere", which led to a sharp increase in the accumulation of small property houses in the city.

　　Because many taxes and fees have not been paid and facilities are not complete, small property houses are cheap. According to local sources, in 2000, the price of a small property right bought in Leiyang city center was 300 yuan to 400 yuan, while the price of a commercial house in the same lot was about 500 yuan to 600 yuan. Today, the average price of commercial housing in Leiyang is around 3,000 yuan per square meter, and the price of small property houses ranges from 1,000 to 1,500 yuan.

　　Letting children receive education in the city is the "greatest common denominator" of Leiyang farmers’ motivation to enter the city. The above-mentioned civil servants explained to reporters that the allocation of resources in cities is still much better than that in the countryside, especially education. Parents in rural areas, some prefer to buy a house by shining shoes in the city, but also to train children to study in the city.

　　The large urban population has created commercial prosperity for Leiyang, which has spawned a large number of employment opportunities. "It feels practical to buy a house in the city. I am also a city dweller. This is the idea of farmers in Leiyang, and they are also very proud." For this analysis, Ronaldinho agreed: "Everyone has gone to town, only a few old people still live in the countryside, and you are embarrassed to keep it alone."

　　Town decline: people go to the building and the industry is not good.

　　Contrary to the accelerated expansion and development of Leiyang city, it is the accelerated decline of local small towns. Ronaldinho’s hometown, Dayi Town, is located in the southeast corner of leiyang city. Visiting the market town of Dayi Town, the reporter found that there was a commercial street with Huizhou architecture behind the main street, and most of the storefronts on both sides of the street were not decorated and used, and they were empty. On the first floor, there is a special bazaar with a large area. Under the zoning signs such as "Fruit Area", the long cement platform where all kinds of goods are scheduled to be placed has already been covered with thick dust. There are only a few families who buy a house on the facade and live there.

　　In order to prosper the small town, Dayi Town had some brains. The town government introduced investors to create a commercial "new district", helped introduce the Postal Savings Bank, built new kindergartens, bought some properties, and transformed developers into standard public rental housing.

　　However, the reporter found that the "Dayiwei Commercial New Street", a key project attracting investment from leiyang city, has not been opened for operation for several years, and has not played its initial purpose of effectively driving small towns. According to reports, the direct reason is that some store owners in the market town are worried about the loss of interests and do not agree to open the farmer’s market. The local government has coordinated many times.

　　Dayi is a big coal-producing town in Leiyang, with thousands of coal miners. When the coal price was high a few years ago, there were more floating people on the streets. The low price of coal has led to the "economic depression" of the whole town, which has also slowed down the construction of local small towns.

　　The population rushing to buy a house in the city has not only weakened the prosperity of the market town of Dayi Town, but also taken away many students from Dayi Town, and also worried the local government that if the investment in rural education is increased, if the number of students is not stable in the future, wouldn’t it be a waste?

　　"The most profound feeling of farmers entering the city is that farmers with a little economic strength in the rural areas of Leiyang are willing to send them to urban schools even if their children go to primary school." A rural female teacher told reporters that her school was formed by the merger of two primary schools, but after the merger, the number of students in one class is now less than the peak before the merger.

　　Despite the difficulties, Dayi Town is still trying to build small towns and try to keep the population as much as possible. In recent years, a waterworks has been built in the town, a 300-meter-long sewer pipe has been completed, the appearance of the market town has been beautified, and public kindergartens have also been opened. They are introducing the boss of Anji, Zhejiang Province, hoping to open a factory to digest tens of thousands of acres of bamboo on the mountain and drive farmers to increase their income on the spot. They hope to develop rural tourism, for example, to create a hometown of lotus flowers and boost their popularity.

　　Compared with Dayi Town, the location of the new town is relatively superior. It is close to Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway and leishui River, and the traffic location is extremely convenient. In history, Leiyang county was once ruled, and now there are still old streets and alleys preserved. In the past, the new city was the center of surrounding towns and villages, and many people from towns and villages in neighboring counties came to the new city to hold fairs. Nowadays, many towns in neighboring counties are prosperous, and the role of the central market town in the new city is correspondingly weakened.

　　The expanding Leiyang urban area has swept away a lot of rural resources like a flood, and villages and towns are like riverbeds after the spring tide, leaving a trail of weeds and gravel.

　　Urban fatigue: farmers have many problems in entering the city

　　Relevant people who have visited Leiyang on the spot can’t help but sigh: "Is the polarization between cities and towns the new urbanization we want?" Large-scale farmers entering the city make Leiyang’s public services "under great pressure" and its financial burden is unbearable.

　　A large number of children of migrant workers need to go to school, and it is difficult for the government to bear the burden of running a school, so private schools came into being. Although private education has solved the problem of schooling for a large number of children, it has also increased the burden on parents to some extent.

　　The problem of "difficulty in going to school" and its derivative "large class size" is also prominent in Leiyang. Cai Zichi Middle School in Leiyang was called "the largest junior high school in Asia" at its peak. In a report in 2015, leiyang city Education Bureau described that "with the acceleration of urbanization, the urban population has increased sharply, and the number of students who choose schools in cities has increased sharply, and the public education resources in urban areas are in short supply, resulting in a serious shortage of degrees". It is not uncommon for 70 to 80 students to have a "large class" in Leiyang City.

　　The city is expanding on a large scale, but the infrastructure is difficult to follow up quickly. Traffic, garbage disposal, urban flood control, etc. all have large debts. Ronaldinho told reporters that his home is on the top floor of the eighth floor, and there is no elevator. People above the fifth floor can use tap water all the year round by self-purchased booster pumps.

　　A large number of "small property houses" have become the "scars" of the city. They have no community, no property and messy environment. The proportion of residential areas with property is very low. Even if there are, many of them are transferred by developers to relatives and friends for operation, lacking substantial bidding and backward management.

　　The problem of disorderly development of real estate is very prominent, which has become a major fuse of social contradictions in Leiyang. In the second half of 2016, a report by the local government revealed that more than 70% of the cases of letters and visits in Leiyang were caused by real estate development and land development, and 95% of the cases of letters and visits were the above two types of cases. Some "black buildings" and "black projects" have serious problems, and most of them have problems such as failure to hand over houses on time, failure to apply for permits, unfinished projects, broken project funds and suspected illegal fund-raising.

　　"It is not easy for farmers who are inferior in average education and quality to leave the fields to live in cities." The person in charge of a furniture store in Leiyang raised many problems faced by farmers after entering the city, for example, how to solve the employment and life problems? How to protect medical care, insurance and recreational life? In his view, if these problems are not solved, "it is not a good thing for farmers to go to cities, but it will cause some new social problems and give birth to a new difficult group."

　　Open a number of broken roads in the urban area, demolish 136,273 square meters of illegal buildings, and build a new education city next to high-speed railway station … … Nowadays, Leiyang is strengthening urban management with unprecedented efforts, putting forward the slogan of "building the largest and most beautiful county in the province", and has also started in the planning and construction of small towns in recent years. But in comparison, the changes in small towns are far behind those in urban areas, and Leiyang is also making great efforts to transform weak schools in rural areas.

　　"The city management is not good enough." Ronaldinho said flatly that he doesn’t like Leiyang, although this is his hometown. One day, he hopes to go to his wife’s hometown of Hainan Island and start a new life.