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Rural vitalization in China: A perspective of land consolidation

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The core objective of rural vitalization is to systemically establish a coupling pattern of various rural development elements including population, land and industry. As one of the prerequisites, land resources is required to be optimally allocated via land consolidation. Consequently, land consolidation contributes greatly to population agglomeration, industrial development and resources support under the context of combating rural decline. Based on the key elements affecting rural development, this paper elaborates the connotation of rural vitalization and land consolidation in the new era as well as their relationships. Furthermore, the paper analyzes the alternative paths for achieving rural vitalization via land consolidation, and discusses the future directions of land consolidation and rural vitalization. The conclusions are drawn as follows: (1) To cope with the loss and decline of the intrinsic elements in rural areas, rural vitalization is a development strategy aimed at realizing economic, political, cultural and ecological rejuvenation in rural area by reshaping socio-economic morphology and spatial pattern in rural territory. (2) From the perspective of rural vitalization, land consolidation is endowed with new connotation, which should not only target at activating the key elements of rural development, but also place emphasis on coordinating material space and spirit core as well as integrating the restructuring of the physical space and the rural governance system. (3) Land consolidation should be compatible with regional natural conditions and the current stage of socio-economic development. According to the principle of regional planning and classification strategy, the appropriate models and paths should be adopted to promote the benign interactions of population, land and industry based on engineering techniques and ecological means. (4) Under the background of national strategy of rural vitalization, it is necessary to reshape the value orientation of land consolidation based on a scientific understanding of urban-rural relations and rural territorial functions, coordinate land consolidation planning and rural vitalization planning under the unified spatial planning system, and explore the new model combining land consolidation and multifunctional agriculture.

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  1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, 100101, China

    Hualou Long, Yingnan Zhang & Shuangshuang Tu

  2. College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Hualou Long & Yingnan Zhang

  3. Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf, Nanning Normal University, the Ministry of Education, Nanning, 530001, China

    Shuangshuang Tu

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Foundation: Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.41731286; The Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China, No.2018M630197; The Bagui Scholars Program of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

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Long, H., Zhang, Y. & Tu, S. Rural vitalization in China: A perspective of land consolidation. J. Geogr. Sci. 29, 517–530 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11442-019-1599-9

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