CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL NETWORK EVOLUTION IN HOLLOWING RURAL AREAS AND PLANNING RESPONSE:A CASE STUDY OF HOLLOWED VILLAGE A IN SICHUAN PROVINCE
During the nearly four decades of urbanization,China's rural areas witnessed changes in spatial production logic owing to the flow of population,and their social relations were given new forms and implications.These changes in social relations lead to a realistic predicament of territorial planning in connection with rural revitalization.Accordingly,taking a typical hollowed village in Sichuan as an example,this paper discusses the evolution mechanism of social relation network and rural planning.The process is as follows:the basic data of population,social relation,and employment of the village during the past four decades is collected;the network structure models of kinship and geo-relation are developed using the social network analysis method;a comparative analysis is conducted on changes in the overall tightness,local stability,and individual concentration trend of social network structure before and after hollowing out.The results show that:in terms of kinship,the overall tightness first increases and then decreases,local stability first increases and then decreases,and the individual concentration continues to weaken;in terms of geo-relations,the overall tightness continues to decrease,and local stability and individual concentration show fluctuations.In addition,the paper further explores the connection between rural social relation network changes and spatial changes,and rural planning and governance with respect to explicit influencing factors and underlying mechanisms.Based on the logical connection of"population,social relation,social operation,and rural planning",it puts forward a rural planning and governance strategy of"land transfer,relation building,and space reshaping",which is expected to provide a reference for the rural revitalization in the western China.
rural areasocial relation networkterritorial planninghollowing out
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