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Revival of Pingtian Village in Songyang County Sun, et al.

Figure 2. Pingtian Village after 2 years of planning and reconstruction. Source: Yunshang Pingtian Guesthouse

1.1 Rural revitalization in China improving infrastructure are two key factors,
In 2012, the Chinese government launched a excellent renovation cases are another
comprehensive survey of traditional villages. important factor. There must be exemplary
In the same year, selection and verification of villages and buildings in each village, so that
the “Chinese Traditional Village List” by it can quickly form a brand effect and
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experts were carried out. The lag of rural becomes the activation point of the villages .
development is the most prominent problem The renewal of Pingtian Village is an
of unbalanced and inadequate development, excellent case of this development path.
and the rural revitalization strategy is
implemented to solve the development 1.2 Traditional villages are strategic
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problem . resources for the county development
Jicai Feng proposed that traditional The conservation and reconstruction of
villages are another type of cultural heritage, Pingtian could not be done without the policy
which are both tangible and intangible support of Songyang county government. The
cultural heritage. Traditional villages contain county has 75 traditional villages like
traditional production and life, and the Pingtian, a number ranking very high in the
protection of rural heritage must be overall country.
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protection . Qiu Baoxing pointed out that In 2013, the conservation of traditional
there are many new opportunities for rural villages was still an emerging field. However,
development. We should not simply promote as early as 2011, Songyang county
rural construction with the model of urban government was visionary and it realized that
construction and industrial development, but the large number of traditional villages in the
also put forward the countermeasures and county was not a burden of economic
methods of rural construction, develop new development, but strategic resources for
industries, promote economic development cultural and tourism industries. The county
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with the pleasant rural living environment . government explored areas like conservation
Rural revitalization and protection are not mechanisms, financial resources,
contradictory, but mutually beneficial. The conservation techniques and so on. On the one
author believes that for the traditional villages, hand, the government gathered resources
formulating protection measures and from various departments including

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