Bring back the vitality of the place-the way to revitalize rural towns after the merger of counties and cities.

Share523 + 113Tweet3 EmailShares 539 regain local vitality-notes on the 16th National Community College Seminar Forum

Moderator: professor Zeng Xuzheng, Institute of Architecture, Tainan University of Art

Interviewer: director of Xinying University Zhang Wenbin

Director Secretary Zhang Guanghua, Sanying Social University

Cai Peiru, Director-General of Qingshuiu scold head Culture Promotion Association

Director Li Chengan of Fengshan Community University

Responder: professor Chen Ruihua, Institute of Society, Tsinghua University

Professor Hong Xinlan, VIP Research Institute, normal University

Guo Feyu, Director of the Land Department of the National Development Commission.

Professor Zeng Xuzheng's introduction: the spatial distribution of urban and rural population is polarized, and the vitality of rural towns is being reduced!

In the face of the polarization of the spatial distribution of Taiwan's population, most of the population lives in the metropolis, while a small number of people are scattered in the vast number of villages and towns. With the tilt and adjustment of the urban-rural relationship, the local vitality of the whole rural town is being reduced.

The most obvious example is that the community colleges in Tainan are scattered among these townships, so how can the local community colleges deal with this situation?

For example, when I lived in Xiaying, my father asked me to buy a pair of trousers. When I went to the street to see it, almost the clothing store was withering. Then, most of them are beverage shops, clinics and glasses shops. They know that electrical appliances on the street are 20% more expensive than those on the Internet, but the elderly in the countryside will still buy them on the street because of convenient maintenance and more humane after-sales service.

The life style gap between urban and rural areas will affect several layers of relations: the relationship between people and land, between people and people, and between people and themselves, which accumulate to constitute life in the community. For example, people are relatively safe in an environment with rich social networks, but people are more likely to have risks in an alienated environment.

(photo source: public TV website)

Questioner Ye Xingzhen (consultant, Kaohsiung Breeze Market):

The launch of the breeze bazaar in Kaohsiung County in terms of urban-rural exchanges is actually a good example, and the breeze bazaar has now become a brand and further promotes green restaurants. However, after the merger of counties and cities, although the Kaohsiung municipal government is also promoting green restaurants, small organic farmers actually account for very little.

And in the breeze bazaar, we can see that after the merger of counties and cities, the thinking of the entire public sector seems to be more inclined to contract out.

In the past, the former Kaohsiung County Social Affairs Department went into the community to provide guidance, but now after the merger of counties and cities, the thinking of the municipal government has changed to the way of issuing contracts. Sent to the consultant, the consultant is to meet the quantitative indicators required by the municipal government as far as possible, but in fact it does not accumulate, and the case is over.

Local communities are different. NGO organizations have been doing these things all the time. With or without resources, when the case is over, they will find ways to find resources and continue to do things.

* record collation / Lin Jiyang (this article is not checked with the negotiators one by one, and the author bears his own responsibility)

* simultaneous publication on the official website of the Association for the Promotion of Social University: http://www.napcu.org.tw/2012/news233.html

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