江苏省盐城市是农业大市、人口大市，全市７９３万人口中７０％以上在农村。“十五”期间，我们要在基本实现小康的基础上，步入宽裕型小康，为早日实现现代化奠定坚实基础。这样，我们必须把加快发展小城镇作为盐城“十五”经济社会发展新动力、新资源、新需求、新市场的战略? Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, is a large agricultural city with a large population. Over 70% of the city’s population of 7930000 is in rural areas. During the 10th Five-Year Plan, we must, on the basis of basically realizing a well-to-do life, enter a well-off society and lay a solid foundation for the early realization of modernization. In this way, we must take the strategy of accelerating the development of small towns as a new impetus, new resource, new demand and new market for the economic and social development in Yancheng during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period.