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Architecture and Urbanism Protection and utilization of traditional villages

Figure 2. Feng Shui ideal pattern diagram and Jiangbian village settlement pattern diagram. Source: Compiled for the present study.
2.2. The relationship between Jiangbian Village and gradually blurred, accompanied by the rapid development
the environment of the urban-rural development of township enterprises, which intensified the narrowing
Since the reform and opening-up in 1978, rural of the gap between town and village and enhanced the
urbanization process are subjected to multiple factors. urban-rural interaction link to a certain extent. Due to the
Jiangbian Village is in the suburban area of Dongguan expropriation of land, the industrial structure of Jiangbian
City, less directly affected by the economic development of Village has also undergone transformation. The basic status
the urban area, so the village construction and economic of agriculture is gradually declining, the function of the
development in the past was slow. In 1978, with the village mainly in agriculture is slowly disappearing, while
beginning of China’s reform and opening-up policy, many the function of the city mainly in market economy has not
“the ‘three-plus-one’ trading-mix” enterprises stationed in been fully established, and the retained part of agricultural
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Guangdong, mostly at Dongguan, at this time the Jiangbian economy makes Jiangbian Village and the surrounding
Village was also affected, a large number of industries areas become a place where rural agricultural economy
in the village, and Jiangbian Village began to embark on and modern urban industry coexist.
the road of rural industrialization. After 1992, with the (i) The pursuit of urban-rural integration goals in the
end of Deng Xiaoping’s southern tour speech, various context of the new era
regions accelerated infrastructure construction, increased In 2019, the state released the work of carrying out
the intensity of opening up to the outside world, and comprehensive territorial spatial planning (Ministry
introduced a large amount of foreign capital. As a result, the of Natural Resources, 2019), and governments at
industry was further developed, and the development of the provincial, city, county, and township levels have
village-type “the three-plus-one trading-mix” enterprises been carrying out preparation work one after another.
represented by Dongguan City accelerated, and the scale In the process of compiling the territorial spatial
of production space required by enterprises also gradually planning in Qishi Township, Jiangbian Village was
increased. Land that was previously used for agricultural included within the township development boundary
production is slowly being leased and mostly used for of Qishi Township. This meant that Jiangbian
new industrial parks. Due to the further development of Village was no longer an independent village in the
rural industrial parks, the boundary of town and village traditional sense, so the coordinated development
functions between Jiangbian Village and Qishi Town is of industry and agriculture and urban and rural
areas became an inevitable choice. In the same
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3 The “ three-plus-one trading-mix” is the initial form of foreign year, Dongguan Songshan Lake High-tech Zone
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(mainly Hong Kong) investment in Mainland China. With the proposed the “one park and nine towns ” integrated
Pearl River Delta (PRD) region having the advantage of being development model, which as a whole shifted its goal
adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, a large number of foreign
investments in the form of “incoming material processing,” 4 Songshan Lake High-tech Zone is located in the middle of
“incoming sample processing,” “incoming assembly,” and Dongguan City, and is a comprehensive national science
“compensation trade” implanted in the PRD region’s villages. center led by science and technology innovation industry and
“Assembly of parts” and “compensatory trade” in the form of advanced manufacturing clusters.
implantation in the villages of the PRD region became the base of 5 “One industrial area and nine towns” includes Songshan Lake
industrial transfer from Hong Kong and Macao, forming a “front High-tech Zone (one industrial area) and Shilong, Liaobu,
store and back factory.” This phenomenon is especially notable in Dalingshan, Dalang, Hengli, Dongkeng, Qishi, Shipai, and
the Dongguan area, also known as the “Dongguan model.” Chashan (nine towns).

Volume 5 Issue 1 (2023) 4 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.406