Building a rural community with rural characteristics

The "rural community with rural characteristics" mentioned here is compared with the urban community. At present, different communities in Chinese cities are formed with the rapid development of China's social economy. It has obvious characteristics, such as large and concentrated population, strong government support, complicated and diverse occupations of residents, convenient community service facilities, high degree of network information, few human exchanges among residents, and so on.

With the acceleration of urbanization, especially the continuous expansion of the scale of demolishing bungalows in rural areas and the promotion of governments at all levels, the construction of rural communities in China has a tendency to imitate or even copy urban communities. We should attach great importance to this.

China's rural community construction starts later than urban community construction, and it is reasonable for rural communities to learn from urban communities. Rural communities should learn from the concepts and practices of people-oriented and convenient residents in urban community construction, rather than simply imitating some urban communities to build tall buildings, luxurious squares, broad community service centers and so on. Rural communities have characteristics such as low population concentration, little appreciation potential in geographical locations, residents mostly engaged in various production activities around agriculture, inconvenient community service facilities, and more human exchanges based on consanguinity and clans. if we blindly imitate urban community construction, rural communities will not be suitable for the production and life of rural residents. For example, at present, most rural communities must have suitable sites for poultry breeding, their own vegetable gardens that can be easily planted and picked at any time, and warehouses for all kinds of large and medium-sized agricultural tools and agricultural machinery. If there are no such sites, just passively live in buildings, then life and production will become more and more inconvenient, the cost will be higher and higher, and the advantages of rural communities over urban communities will be lost.

There are rural schools, exactly how to set up, what should be taught to students, all need to be in line with the inherent requirements and laws of the rural community. If we do not consider the actual demand for all kinds of talents in rural areas, but through administrative forces to withdraw points and merge schools, blindly imitating the urban model of letting students enter the university to find a good job, it will hinder the long-term development of rural communities.

The present era is characterized by informationization, and the rural community is no exception. How to use modern network technology to break the obstacles blocking the integrated development of urban and rural areas; how to make use of modern network technology to enable agricultural products to be marketed all over the country and to buy the agricultural materials and daily necessities needed by villagers at a low cost; how to use modern network technology to make villagers know the country's agriculture-related policies and subsidies, and how to get convenient government services. Many of these problems are for rural communities to explore and practice, and there are obviously no ready-made cases that can be imitated in urban communities.

Young adults work in large and small cities, and most of the elderly and left-behind children in rural communities. Some scholars believe that the planting industry in rural areas is promoted by the middle-aged and elderly, which is a kind of agriculture for the elderly. Accordingly, rural communities should cultivate social organizations and social service institutions that serve the planting industry for the elderly, so as to facilitate the elderly to engage in agricultural activities, support their families and guard their homes; and rural communities with conditions should purchase social services. let the elderly have access to quality manual labor services such as farming and harvesting at low prices. Only in this way can young and middle-aged people work outside can feel at ease, and rural communities can operate harmoniously. Because young and middle-aged people have been working outside for a long time to earn money, the elderly in rural communities should get help and relief from the community in terms of providing for the aged and left-behind children in terms of lack of parental affection.

Other customs such as village rules and regulations, rural governance, ancestral halls, ancestor worship, marriage and funerals, fairs and festivals are unique to rural communities, and there is no need to imitate urban communities. Only by discarding and carrying forward the unique cultural traditions of these rural communities can we promote the harmonious development of rural communities.