Now the urban-rural integration has been showed much concern by government and lots of scholars. Coordinating the relationship between urban and rural area has been upgraded to important strategic point. However today urban-rural development is faced with many barriers, in which the system factors are the hardest. By studying the huge change of the urban-rural relationship around the reform and opening policy, this essay reveals that the system is the root of the urban-rural contradictions. Then, the paper probes into the course on which the systems accelerate or hinder the development of urban-rural economic integration, urban-rural space integration and the urban-rural sustainable development. And then the essay brings forward the system working mechanism to urban-rural integration.
Moreover, this paper analyses the limitations about the concerned systems that block the development of the urban-rural integration. Such as, the present economic factors flowing systems greatly block the free flow of economic factors between urban and rural area; the different employment system between and rural area results in a half-closed state of the urban-rural employment market; the registered permanent residence system blocks the career and identity transformation of rural surplus labors; the lack of social security system combined with the uncertainty of land property right block the process of the rural land capitalization; the imperfect land running system restricts the agricultural development and blocks the agricultural and rural industrialization, etc..
At the end, the paper put forward some new thoughts about the reform and innovation about the concerned systems in order to accelerate the development of urban-rural integration.