But such resettlement caused trouble to villagers still engaged in farming. They could not find a proper place to store their tools and machinery, so they had to build small sheds beside their apartment buildings.

More importantly, when the farmers lived close to their lands, food scraps could be fed to their chickens and their droppings used to fertilize the land.

The move to apartments destroyed such a resource cycle, increasing the cost of farming.

This practice proved it could only be applied to about 5 percent of the rural areas.

In the suburbs of big cities, farmland was to be, or had already been, turned into industrial areas. In the west of the country, farmland was turned into forests or pastures to preserve the ecological balance.

Therefore, the resettlement of the villagers in both cases would not pose key negative influences to their lives or the agriculture.

The third suggestion was integration in a balanced manner, acknowledging the uniqueness of both areas.

Agriculture is usually managed by individuals or families while in the cities, industry is based on large-scale socialized production.

Consumption in the rural areas is friendly to the environment because of resource recycling while in cities consumption and waste is huge.