城乡一体化是指在社会物质文明、精神文明与政治文明高度发展的基础上,城市、小城镇、农村之间的本质差别逐渐消失、最终融为一体的状态与过程。党的十七届三中全会通过的《中共中央关于推进农村改 The integration of urban and rural areas refers to the state and process of the gradual disappearance of essential differences between cities, small towns and rural areas on the basis of the highly developed social material civilization, spiritual civilization and political civilization. The Third Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Promoting Rural Reform