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| CHRACTERISTICS AND MICROCOSMIC MECHANISM OF RURAL HOLLOW VILLAGES IN LESS DEVELOPED RURAL AREA——A Case Study of Three Villages in Lankao County |
| QIAO Jia-jun1,2, LIU Jia-jun3, XIE Miao2 |
1. Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development, Henan University. Kaifeng 475004, China;
2. College of Environment and Planning, Henan University. Kaifeng 475004, China;
3. Environment and Geography Department, Pingdingshan University. Pingdingshan 467000, China |
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Abstract This paper analyzes the formation mechanism of hollow villages in less developed rural area and tries to integrate the hollow population and the hollow settlement. Researches were based on field survey of three villages in Lankao County, Henan Province, survey and interviews of local households were adopted. It can be summarized that general characteristics exists in hollow villages in less developed rural area. A typical hollow village should have characteristics of spatial morphological differentiation from the core to the edge. But because of economic, social and other restriction factors, villages have strong homogeneous in the less developed rural area; village centers still have a large attractiveness to villagers, which leads to a slow expansion to the boundary. Combining the actors and the village development and utilizing space interface of various resources, can maximize the use of the resources of space around actors, and improve the actors' lives and development. In the edge area, there are better accessibilities and more opportunities for actors. From the core system's perspective of rural area, the formation mechanism of hollow villages in less developed rural areas is mainly due to urbanization, households' income, villagers' concept, land-use systems, financial resources and other restriction factors. We can get the following conclusions:population composition of a family often determines farmers' inhabitancy and the will of working away from hometown; the number of boys in a family is one of the factors which result in expansion of village size; the gap between agricultural income and non-agricultural income is the vital reason of hollow population, and so on.
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Received: 03 May 2011
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2011, Vol. 26 
