**1. Introduction**

Urbanization and rural development are not only the focus of multidisciplinary research at home and abroad, but also a major strategic issue related to the national economy and people's livelihoods [1]. As a complex process of transition from rural areas to urban cities on a regional scale, urbanization involves rural development. Particularly for China, which is a large developing country based on agriculture for a long time, conforming to the law of urbanization development in the world and simultaneously addressing the practical problems of rural revitalization have become an objective need for China, which has entered a new era and high-quality stage [2–5]. Urbanization and rural revitalization have both become national strategies, which also reflects the inevitability of the integration of these two strategies [6,7]. Unbalanced urban–rural development and inadequate rural development are the key issues in the new era of Chinese society [3,8]. As new-type urbanization and rural revitalization have become national strategies in succession, China is attaching great importance to the coordinated development of urban and rural areas [9]. However, how to combine these two strategies and guide further work awaits to be studied further. A literature review method and comparative analysis are used in this article. With the literature review method, the article summarizes the classic

**Citation:** Chen, M.; Zhou, Y.; Huang, X.; Ye, C. The Integration of New-Type Urbanization and Rural Revitalization Strategies in China: Origin, Reality and Future Trends. *Land* **2021**, *10*, 207. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/land10020207

Academic Editor: Luca Salvati

Received: 11 January 2021 Accepted: 10 February 2021 Published: 18 February 2021

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recognition of urbanization and rural relations. With the comparative analysis, the article describes the particularity of urban and rural development in China. This paper reviews the classic recognition of urbanization and rural relations at home and abroad, and outlines the key events related to evolution of urban–rural relations and their impacts on urban– rural relations based on the development history of China, then analyzing the problems of urbanization and rural development since reform and opening up. It is believed that the urban-biased urbanization is an important factor that caused the gap between urban and rural development, and new urbanization will help to reverse the problems existing as a result of the past development. The integration of new-type urbanization and a rural revitalization strategy will further promote the interaction and coupling of urbanization and rural revitalization. From the view of multi-disciplinarity, this paper puts forward the scientific issues of the integration of new-type urbanization and rural revitalization, and constructs a research framework for the integrated development of these two strategies.
