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Study on the Spatial Restructuring of the Village System at the County Level Oriented toward the Rural Revitalization Strategy: A Case of Jintan District, Jiangsu Province

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  • Xinguo Bu

    (School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
    Jiangsu Province Land Surveying and Planning Institute, Nanjing 210017, China
    Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Exploitation and Protection, MNR, Nanjing 210017, China)

  • Lijie Pu

    (School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
    Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Exploitation and Protection, MNR, Nanjing 210017, China)

  • Chunzhu Shen

    (Jiangsu Province Land Surveying and Planning Institute, Nanjing 210017, China
    Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Exploitation and Protection, MNR, Nanjing 210017, China)

  • Xuefeng Xie

    (College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China)

  • Caiyao Xu

    (School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China)

Abstract

The spatial restructuring of village systems is an important means by which to promote rural revitalization. A large number of villages with small average areas bring great challenges to the implementation of the Rural Revitalization Strategy (RRS) in China. To promote the implementation of the RRS, it is necessary to restructure the village system. This paper proposes a method of spatial restructuring for the village system at the county level, oriented toward the RRS. This study proposes a village classification system with central villages, characteristic villages, and merged villages. It also accounts for the role of various villages in the RRS and proposes differentiated development strategies. This study involved the construction of a village centrality index system and a central village selection model aligned with the RRS. Taking the district of Jintan in Jiangsu Province as a case study for the empirical analysis, the results show that the applicability of the model to the study area is good. Using this model, 32 central villages and 10 characteristic villages were selected. After restructuring the village system, the number of villages decreased by 69.1%. The results from analyzing the travel time radius of the central villages show that 71.5% of the land in the evaluation area lies within a 15 min commute of the central villages, and 96.5% lies within 25 min, indicating that the locations and number of the selected central villages are reasonable. Compared with the service area of the village system before the restructure, the average service area of the central villages is 3.4 times larger, which helps to improve the infrastructure and public service efficiency of the central villages. By guiding resources to aggregate in the central villages and promoting the comprehensive consolidation of land in the merged villages, the restructuring of the village system can help further the success of the RRS in Jintan.

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  • Xinguo Bu & Lijie Pu & Chunzhu Shen & Xuefeng Xie & Caiyao Xu, 2020. "Study on the Spatial Restructuring of the Village System at the County Level Oriented toward the Rural Revitalization Strategy: A Case of Jintan District, Jiangsu Province," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(12), pages 1-14, November.
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