In line with the trend of urbanization, Cixi is now taking great efforts to promoting the construction of new rural area. In an evaluation of the achievement last year, Cixi was listed as one of the top cities which have made great progress in the construction of new rural area. It is said that Cixi has again won the title as the leading city. Besides, Cixi has also been listed as advanced unit in housing program.
Housing reform is an important step in the process of urbanization and it is now regarded as an important measure which can promote the comprehensive development of rural area and speed up the urbanization and improve the livelihood of people in rural area. Cixi government has made it one of most important tasks and has implemented 40 functional zone programs in which 4073 households have been moved and 7089 households will be moved. At the same time, area of 330,000 square meters has been used to build residence.
Adhering to the principle of "cultivating, building, advancing and rolling development", Cixi has started the cultivation of central villages and rural land and comprehensive improvement project of land. According to the Village Network planning and residential areas distribution planning, Cixi has identified 30 provincial training centers in rural villages and 12 objectives of integrated land remediation projects and will implement dynamic management of the selected villages. They have determined the first seven villages to create the provincial village centers and 12 villages in their comprehensive improvement project. Cixi has also arranged 20 million Yuan annually to support the cultivation of the village centers. Assessment will involve the cultivation of village centers and comprehensive improvement of rural land management. Those who have done the excellent work of the first party secretary in the assessment Recommending Excellent League Members to give priority to the implementation of ineffective work Cancellation of training qualifications.
In addition, the city also adheres to the principle of “creating and to enhancing”. According to local conditions, they will enhance ne village renovation project. By 2010, there will be another 9 comprehensive well-off villages,55 villages of environment improvement and the total number of 60 well-off villages, the village completed a comprehensive environmental remediation work. Cixi will also actively promote the construction of rural transport, electricity, commerce and infrastructure. While improving rural travel conditions, and actively promoting the integration of urban and rural passenger transport, they will also create a new rural electrification of 50 villages to achieve the full coverage of electrization. There will be new addition of chain of convenience stores. Comprehensive rural community development will be implemented and there will be 134 new service centers in rural communities. Finally, they will actively carry out the rural housing insurance policy. It is expected that 324,552 farmers will be insured, an increase of 2472 over last year, the enrollment of insurance reached 100%.

