Abstract Jingyuan County is located in the south of Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region. We choose it as a representative sample to carry out the research, which based on reasonable causes as follow s:First, almost all residents there are Hui nationality;Second, local residential place which located in many types of physical geographic terrain or physiognomy produced many community types which adapted its outer shape and inner structure to the local space;Third, Hui Nationalities lived in Jingyuan county from 1871 B.C.
Based on a great amount first-hand data and information in survey, we divided Ningxia Hui nationality communities into four spatial (district)type as plain type, slope type, semi-plain and semislope type, river valley type.Every type has its individual outer shape, inner structure and evolvement route.We take random sample to survey and lised detailed results.There are many special and regular phenomena, spatial movement and problems in Hui nationality community, and we extracted these materials and listed some classical scientific points in this article and tried to show some rules of Ningxia Hui nationaty community's spatial structure and its evolvement.
In the forth part of the paper, we draw a discussion on the relationship between geographic space and human culture environment of Hui nationality community.Some social factors, such as family, nationality, folk and religion, influenced the spatial selection, community structure and inter-location of Hui nationality community thoroughly in the whole developing progress of Hui nationality.
At present stage, Ningxia Hui nationality has many problems and difficulties in its future development, such as low level of urbanization, decentralization of community, poor infrastructure in community and bad ecological state, etc.
2003, Vol. 18 
