这篇关于英语听力，是人才资讯网特地为大家整理的，希望对大家有所帮助！ One of the biggest changes in China"s economic development in the past decade has been the country"s rapid urbanization. CRI"s Ding Lulu takes a closer look at how China"s economic development has affected both urban and rural areas. Twenty-two-year-old Zeng Fansheng came to Beijing to work seven years ago. The enormous job opportunities the capital offered attracted him to this megacity. His dream was to live here permanently. "I"m a food supplier. I supply vegetable and meat to restaurants here. I hope that I"ll have a better job as a supplier and earn lots of money to buy a house in Beijing and provide a good life for my family."外语学习网培训 Zeng is among the millions of Chinese people who chose to relocate to cities from the rural areas, hoping for a better life. By the end of last year, the Chinese mainland had a total urban population of 691 million, or 51.3 percent of the total population, a 26-percent increase from the 1990 figure. For the first time, the urban population has exceeded the rural population in this traditionally agricultural country. Obviously, the migration of rural farmers to cities has provided laborers for enterprises. From 1990 until 2012, China"s growth of industrial production averaged more than 13 percent annually. Chinese Communist Party national congress delegate Ding Xinmin is the Party secretary of Oriental Holding Group, a multi-billion-dollar construction company based in Inner Mongolia. He points out that migrant workers have made the company successful. "My enterprise is labor-intensive. Over the years, we have hired a lot of migrant workers. We used to only have an output value of seventy or eighty million yuan, but now the output of bridge and road construction alone is four to five billion yuan. This has not accomplished by us, but by the migrant workers." Professor Yin Chengzhi, an urbanization expert at Tsinghua University, adds the decade of rapid urbanization has also been reflected on social l development in the country.外语学习网 "For example, the popularization of compulsory education, and the initial establishment of a nationwide basic social security system. The development and progress of society and rapid urbanization are complementary." As China leapt into industrialization and realized its amazing transformation, it did not leave the rural sector behind. The Ministry of Agriculture has recently told the media that the country"s national grain production is expected to increase for the ninth consecutive year for the first time in half a century. Professor Yin Chengzhi explains the policies China has introduced to help the rural sector. "The cancellation of the agricultural tax, for example, reflected our country"s agriculture-oriented policy. It improved farmers" enthusiasm for production, provided them with more freedom to choose, enhanced productivity, increased their income and narrowed the gap between urban and rural areas. Under these policies, you can see that agricultural production has shifted from extensive to intensive, and basic public services in rural areas have been preliminarily established." For CRI, this is Ding Lulu.
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