Rural Restructuring Under Globalization in Eastern Coastal China: What Can be Learned From Wales?

Authors

  • Hualou Long Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy
  • Michael Woods Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (IGES) and Wales Institute of Social a

Abstract

The differentiation of rural development in eastern coastal China has been exaggerated by the rapid rural restructuring under globalization, since economic reforms and an open-door policy were initiated in 1978. The problems associated with rural restructuring in China may in part be addressed by drawing on experiences and achievements from other countries, including Britain, which may have experienced similar developmental stages as part of their trajectory of rural progression. This paper examines the different trajectories of rural development and different policies and strategies for rural development in eastern coastal China and Wales, identifying points of convergence and divergence, and considering the possible lessons that China might take from the experience of rural development in Wales. Keywords: Rural restructuring, globalization, comparative study, Wales, eastern coastal China

Author Biographies

Hualou Long, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy

Hualou Long is Professor of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research is directed at studies of land-use change and rural development. He acts as member of the editorial board of Disaster Advances and Land Use Policy, and secretary-general of the Specialty Committee of Agricultural Geography & Rural Development, the Geographical Society of China. He received his PhD in geography from Peking University, China.

Michael Woods, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (IGES) and Wales Institute of Social a

Michael Woods is Professor in Human Geography and Director of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences. He holds a PhD from Bristol University. Mike's research and teaching focus on rural and political geography, particularly rural politics and protest, community governance and globalization and rural place. He is coordinator for a European Union FP7 project on 'Developing Europe's Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization' (DERREG). Mike Woods is Co-Director of the Wales Rural Observatory and a former Chair of the Political Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG.

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Published

2011-09-16

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2011)

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