Safeguarding Traditional Villages in China: The Role and Challenges of Rural Heritage Preservation

作     者：Mengyuan Zhou Songfeng Chu Xiaofan Du 

作者机构：Department of Cultural Heritage and MuseologyFudan UniversityShanghaiChina College of Architecture and Urban PlanningTongji UniversityShanghaiChina 

出 版 物：《Built Heritage》 (建成遗产（英文）)

年 卷 期：2019年第3卷第2期

页      面：81-93页

学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 

基　　金：This paper is based on the field study project organised by Centre for Land and Cultural Resources Research of Fudan University in 2018.The project is support­ed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China in which a total of 137 interviews with villagers social groups and departmental officials were conducted in five provinces including Anhui Zhejiang Fujian Guizhou and Shanxi 

主　　题：rural heritage historical and cultural villages traditional villages 

摘      要：Since the reform and opening-up policy of 1978,China has established the double-track inventory sys­tem of rural heritage preservation to cope with the impact of rapid urbanisation on rural *** paper analyses the evolution in the concept of policy making from the Historical and Cultural Villages system to the Traditional Vil­lages *** argues that the mass recognition of Traditional Villages in China since 2012 indicates that the under­standings of rural heritage have evolved from the distinguished to the diverse,the tangible only to the intangible included,and the material-based to the *** the rural revitalisation policy,the role of Traditional Villages in social development will be further explored and promoted as‘means of improvement’,looking for the bal­ance between protection and development of rural heritage in the urban-rural dual structure.