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| RECENT PROGRESS IN THE SPECIALIZED VILLAGE STUDY OF CHINA |
| QIAO Jia-jun1,2, YANG Jia-wei2 |
1. Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China;
2. College of Environment & Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China |
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Abstract Specialized village study is an important field generally concerned to academia in recent years. In order to revitalize the local economy, Japanese government carried out the "One Village One Product" movement of the last century, and it is a great success. Then, it was gradually spread to many countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Korea. Researchers in China have come up with many useful ideas for the development rural areas. For example, rural industrialization, industrialization of agriculture. In China, the concept of "One Village One Product" is derived from Japan, but then in most circumstances, was stated as "Specialized Village" according to the Chinese characteristics. Based on the literatures of the specialized village in China, the paper discussed the concept of the specialized village and the factors affecting the specialized village formation, and summarized some new trends to specialized village study. According to references, although there are many definitions of specialized village, they all focuses on the following points:the number of specialized households in the village, income of specialized households, and core industry and production organization in the village. In fact, it was an industrial cluster in rural areas in the micro scale. Scholars focuses on four aspects when they analyze reasons of the formation of specialized village:farmer, geographical factors, government, social and economic environment and technical conditions. Research-based on social networking specialized village, research of farmers' self-developing ability, and specialized village and financial geography. The ultimate ownership of the development specialized village is still a mystery for us. Is it turned into a satellite city of large cities in the urban-rural integration, or merged by big cities directly, or keeping the identity of the rural areas? These are problems we shall solve.
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Received: 16 May 2012
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2013, Vol. 28 
