The Governance Path of Urban-Rural Integration in Changing Urban-Rural Relationships in the Metropolitan Area: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

Since the founding of the country, China's urban-rural relations have experienced four stages: differentiation, opposition, coordination, and equivalence. The scope of rural research has expanded from individual villages to group relations, and the research content also tends to the urban-rural integration trend of factor flow. In the context of New Urbanization and the Rural Revitalization Strategies, urban-rural integration is an important starting point to solve urban-rural contradictions, and the metropolitan area is an important spatial carrier to achieving urban-rural integration. Based on investigating the key issues of urban-rural integration and metropolitan governance, this paper constructs a "place function" cognitive framework of urban-rural space in the metropolitan area, and takes Wuhan metropolitan area with its dense rural distribution as an example to recognize the urban-rural spatial characteristics of the metropolitan area scale from six dimensions: spatial structure, land use, settlement distribution, scenic spots, agricultural enterprises, and service facilities. Then, it proposes a spatial development model of the Wuhan metropolitan area of the "point axis structure-, functional area-, resilient network", and further explores the urban-rural integration path of "planning guidance, policy promotion, and spatial support".