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Journal of Chinese

Architecture and Urbanism

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Cultural landscape design and protection of

Lifang Village, Shuangbai County, Yunnan, China,
in the context of rural revitalization

1
Chunran Zhou 1,2 and Mohamad Reza Mohamed Afla *
1 Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains
Malaysia, Gelugor, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
2 Department of Digital Media, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Yunnan Technology and Business
University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Abstract

Rural landscapes serve as crucial foundations for enhancing the quality of the human
environment, showcasing local regional culture, and fostering local industrial development,
thus representing the cornerstone of rural economic and social advancement. Against
the backdrop of national efforts to implement rural revitalization strategies, traditional
cultural landscapes continue to face varying degrees of degradation and disappearance.
Tourism has emerged as a popular strategy for promoting the development of traditional
villages in developing countries. Moreover, the high-quality development of the cultural
and tourism industry in Chinese ethnic minority villages holds immense significance in
advancing local economies, cultures, societies, and environmental protection, serving as a
*Corresponding author: potent means to realize the rural revitalization strategy. This article delves into the cultural
Mohamad Reza Mohamed Afla
(rezafla@usm.my) landscape of Lifang Village in Shuangbai County, Yunnan province, China. Anchored in a
comprehensive understanding of Lifang Village’s political, economic, cultural, social, and
Citation: Zhou, C. & Afla, M.R.M.
(2024). Cultural landscape design ecological contexts, it aims to enhance the humanistic, ecological, industrial, residential,
and protection of Lifang Village, and infrastructural landscapes of the village. The objective is to develop Lifang Village
Shuangbai County, Yunnan, China, into an integrated complex that seamlessly merges ecology, culture, and landscape,
in the context of rural revitalization.
Journal of Chinese Architecture and thereby crafting a Yi village distinguished by its local regional characteristics. Through
Urbanism, 6(3), 2891. meticulous analysis and synthesis of the local cultural, social, and ecological environment,
https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.2891 the article seeks to extract and integrate elements of local distinctiveness, thematic
Received: February 5, 2024 culture, traditional heritage, and classic cultural facets. Ultimately, the aim is to cultivate a
sense of identity and belonging within Lifang Village, bolstering villagers’ well-being and
Accepted: April 15, 2024
contributing to the preservation and inheritance of the exceptional traditional culture of
Published Online: May 31, 2024 ethnic minorities.
Copyright: © 2024 Author(s).
This is an open-access article
distributed under the terms of the Keywords: Rural landscape; Ethnic minority villages; Cultural tourism industry; Rural
Creative Commons Attribution- revitalization; Local characteristics; Cultural landscape
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and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is 1. Introduction
properly cited.
1.1. Research background
Publisher’s Note: AccScience
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published maps and institutional in the 19 National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) report, aiming to
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affiliations. steer China’s rural revitalization into a new era (Yu, 2021). In the 20 National Congress
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