7–11 Jul 2025
Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
Europe/Brussels timezone

The inheritance mechanism of rural living heritage in China based on the model of "rural governance - policy supply - protection and activation"

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20m
Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul

Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul

Oral Track 06 | URBAN CULTURES AND LIVED HERITAGE

Speaker

Dr SIJIE LIU (college of architecture and urban planning, Tongji university)

Description

In the past 40 years, China's urbanization rate has increased from 18% to 66%. Cities have expanded rapidly and rural areas have collapsed rapidly. This process has caused serious damage to China's rural cultural heritage. How to rescue and protect rural cultural heritage and achieve sustainable use is an important issue in China's rural areas.

From the endogenous characteristics of Chinese villages, it is a highly autonomous clan society, independent of the administrative agencies of "central-provincial- municipal-county". This determines that the protection and renewal of villages needs to rely on rural governance. However, as a strong government society, China's rural self-revitalization ability is not strong, the protection and utilization of rural cultural heritage cannot be separated from policy supply. Based on this, this paper studies the triadic dialectics of "rural governance - policy supply - protection and activation", builds a theoretical influence model of the three, and puts forward the core views that rural governance is the tool, policy supply is the guarantee, protection and activation is the purpose.

This paper takes Zhongshan of Guangdong Province where China's rural economic activities are most active, as a case study. Taking rural governance as the starting point, this paper analyzes the protection and utilization of cultural heritage in the process of rural evolution in Zhongshan under the influence of policy supply since 2018, and responds to the theoretical model from the case level. It also proposes suggestions for establishing a feedback mechanism for the protection and utilization of rural cultural heritage: First, improve the regional resource survey mechanism, conduct thorough investigations, and promote the pre-protection of valuable buildings. Second, strengthen top-level design guidance. Traditional village planning should include special content on historical and cultural protection, delineate historical and cultural protection lines and clarify positive and negative lists. Third, take governance as the core theme, give full play to the role of village collectives, and realize multi-governance of city-town-village planners-social public. Fourth, regularly carry out rural physical examinations and assessments, and provide real-time feedback on the effectiveness of protection and renewal. Fifth, establish a supervision and inspection mechanism, not only to strengthen administrative supervision, but also to give full play to the autonomous supervision power of villagers, and then fully realize "village affairs of village governance."

References

Tongji University

Keywords rural governance; policy supply; protection and activation; rural lived heritage
Best Congress Paper Award Yes

Primary author

Dr SIJIE LIU (college of architecture and urban planning, Tongji university)

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