Case study:
Since the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, the demand of the migrant workers are significantly increase, as the result, the phenomenon of Hollow Villages are also correspondingly worsening in every province in China. Till to 2012, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the PRC, there are totally 2.69 hundred million migrant workers in China, and 2.36 hundred million of them are the recurrent population . However, according to the data which announced by NBSC, there are only 6.74 hundred million rural populations till to 2012, that means nearly 40% of the rural population have left their hometown. No wonder there are so many Hollow Villages in China.
Moreover, the Hollow villages are not only waste of the limited land resources, but also bring out a lot of harms. Most of the houses in hollow village are dilapidated and being disrepair, therefore, security risks of these houses are existed. Also, the location of the houses are scattered in the hollow village and the area of the village is too large. As the result it has increase the difficulty for providing the infrastructure such as building the road, the facilities of water and power supply. Furthermore, there are more than 61 million rear children in the rural village, and they are only looking after by the elderly since their parents has gone to urban for work. This will affect the establishment of the children.
In fact, the local governments have been aware of the seriousness of the hollow villages, and introduced several of policies to remediate the hollow villages.
Tang Dong village, Zhuji, Nanxiong, Guangdong
There are totally 232 villages in Nanxiong, but 158 of them have been defined as Hollow Villages. T...
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...rural and Hollow Village remediation, the government should clearly know that the purpose of it is to reduce the land wastage, and attract the migrant workers returning to the rural for production, thus to has the result in rural urbanization.
In fact, Hollow Villages remediation is for improving the rural urbanization, the planning and management of this operation should mainly focus on the convenient of rural resident’s production and daily life. Moreover the traditional rural spiritual and characteristic should be retained when constructing the new village. In fact, there does not require having a complex system design and excessive resources investment, but only playing attention on the long-term development and the interests of the rural village. Only with this, the purpose of urban rural development as well as the new rural construction can then be achieved.