党的十五届三中全会指出,发展小城镇是带动农村经济和社会发展的一个大战略。这是符合经济发展规律和我国国情的高瞻远瞩的论断。从江苏实际出发,加快小城镇发展,对于大规模转移农村富余劳动力,引导乡镇企业形成规模经营和聚集效益,提高农村社会文明程度,特别是对于当前启动民间投资,刺激消费需求,扩大农村市场,促进经济增长,具有十分重要的意义。 江苏小城镇建设起步较早。80年代初,农村工业化为城镇化注入了强大动力,乡镇企业的异军突起带动小 The Third Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee pointed out that the development of small towns is a major strategy for promoting rural economic and social development. This is a forward-looking conclusion that is consistent with the law of economic development and China’s national conditions. Starting from Jiangsu’s reality, speeding up the development of small cities and towns is of great significance to large-scale transfer of rural surplus labor forces, leading township and village enterprises to form scale operations and gathering benefits and to improve the level of rural social civilization. In particular, for the current start-up of private investment, stimulating consumer demand, expanding rural markets, It is of great significance to promote economic growth. Jiangsu small town started earlier. In the early 1980s, rural industrialization injected a great impetus to urbanization and the sudden emergence of township and village enterprises led to a small