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Journal of Chinese

Architecture and Urbanism

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Study on the development path of cultural

tourism integration in Yubai Village in the
context of rural revitalization

Mingyue Li, Mingjing Yang, Yihong Luo, Dehao Zheng, and Matt Fu*

Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Beijing
University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing, China
(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Reshaping Rural China)

Abstract

As a historical node on the coal transportation route along the Old Road of Western
Beijing, Yubai Village served as an important business travel station. However, as
time passed by, the Old Road of Western Beijing transport line gradually declined,
the Mentougou District coal yard shut down, the service function of Yubai Village
disappeared, and the local industry development became slow, necessitating
revitalization of the village economy. At present, rural revitalization has become an
important strategy to promote rural modernization, and Yubai village has ushered in
new opportunities for development. The village can rely on its regional advantages,
adjust its own development direction, and become a distribution center on the
*Corresponding author: tourism route. Based on the previous field investigation and literature review of
Matt Fu Yubai Village, this paper integrates the current resources of the village, analyzes its
(fufan@bucea.edu.cn) realistic development predicament, and, from the perspective of culture and tourism
Citation: Li, M., Yang, M., Luo, Y., integration, proposes new strategies suitable for the development of Yubai Village,
Zheng, D., & Fu, M. (2024). Study such as improving the overall reception services, improving the village landscape
on the development path of cultural node, improving the village road system, carrying out research and education
tourism integration in Yubai Village
in the context of rural revitalization. activities, and developing derivative cultural and creative brands. The purposes are to
Journal of Chinese Architecture and extend the stay time of tourists and give full play to the function of a service station,
Urbanism, 6(1), 0953. realize the revitalization of industry, promote the economic development of the
https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.0953
village, and provide a reference for the development of similar villages in the future.
Received: May 16, 2023
Accepted: July 12, 2023
Keywords: Rural revitalization; Integration of culture and tourism; Yubai Village; Service
Published Online: February 28, 2024 station, China
Copyright: © 2024 Author(s).
This is an open-access article
distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution- 1. Introduction
Non-Commercial 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits all A large number of scholars have extensively studied the integration of culture and
non-commercial use, distribution,
and reproduction in any medium, tourism, exploring its theory through the interaction of the two (Fan, 2019; Liu, 2019;
provided the original work is Zhan et al., 2023). The integration of culture and tourism provides an opportunity for
properly cited. developing rural tourism (Liu & Gao, 2020; Ding, 2023; Guo & Chen, 2023), as well as
Publisher’s Note: AccScience specific practices applied to urban and rural tourism development (Gui & Tang, 2016;
Publishing remains neutral with Wang & Hu, 2020; Niu, 2012). There are also many studies related to Mentougou, ranging
regard to jurisdictional claims in
published maps and institutional from the history of the Mentougou District (Yuan & Li, 2007) to the heritage value
affiliations. and conservation recommendations of the Old Road of Western Beijing (Que & Song,

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