What's the difference between rural areas and cities?

Rural areas have specific natural landscapes and socio-economic conditions, which refer to places where laborers mainly engaged in agricultural production live in concentrated communities, and are places where farmers engaged in agriculture are different from cities and towns. Rural areas are relative to cities, and cities refer to agricultural areas, including market towns and villages. Mainly agricultural industry (natural economy and primary industry), including various farms (including animal husbandry and aquaculture farms), forest farms, gardening and vegetable production.

Cities, also known as urban settlements, are large-scale settlements formed by non-agricultural industries and non-agricultural populations. Densely populated areas are called cities, which generally include residential areas, industrial areas and commercial areas, and have the function of administrative jurisdiction. The administrative jurisdiction of a city may involve a wider scope than itself, including residential areas, streets, hospitals, schools, public green spaces, office buildings, commercial shopping malls, squares, parks and other public facilities. ?

2. Development level

Compared with cities, rural areas have their own characteristics:

1, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the residential areas are scattered in the environment of agricultural production, with pastoral scenery.

2. The phenomenon of family living is obvious.

3. The development level of industry, commerce, finance, culture, education and health is relatively low. ?

Cities are the product of industrial and commercial development. For example, the Mediterranean coast, Milan, Venice and Paris in the13rd century are all important commercial and trade centers; Among them, the population of Venice in its heyday exceeded 200,000. After the industrial revolution, the process of urbanization has been greatly accelerated, and cities have achieved unprecedented development because farmers are constantly flocking to new industrial centers.

3. Differences in economic sources

The source of rural economy is mainly engaged in agriculture, grain production, agriculture, narrow sense refers to planting, broad sense also includes fisheries, forestry, animal husbandry and so on.

The economic activities of the city are mainly industry and commerce, manufacturing products and providing services.

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