Capital intervention mechanism of rural spatial transformation in urban fringe areas from the perspective of urban-rural interaction:The case of Gangtou Village in Guangzhou City
Along with the rapid transformation of urban-rural relations in China,capital has become an important factor in reorganizing urban-rural elements and promoting the transformation and reconstruction of rural space in urban fringe areas.It is important to clarify its intervention mechanism to complement the interpretation of the dynamics of rural spatial reconstruction.This study constructed an analytical framework of the interaction between capital circulation and rural spatial transformation from the perspective of urban-rural interaction,and took Gangtou,a typical village in the urban fringe area of Guangzhou City,as an example to deeply analyze the stage characteristics of rural spatial transformation and its capital intervention mechanism in the Pearl River Delta urban fringe area.The main conclusions are as follows:1)The spatial transformation of Gangtou Village has gone through three stages since the 1980s:initial hollowing out under the urban-rural market circulation of rural residents'capital with intergenerational alternation,urbanization and deep hollowing out under the intervention of industrial and commercial capital and limited urban-rural market circulation of surplus value,and initial fleshing out under the transformation of idle rural space by state-owned capital without land acquisition.2)Capital promotes the spatial transformation of the countryside and the full penetration of the primary to tertiary industries by investing in coordinating the network of rural equity relations to directly transform the space and investing in infrastructure to improve the development environment.The countryside,on the other hand,can induce continuous capital injection by enhancing accessibility and accelerating the integration and restoration of natural and historical cultural resources.3)Capital intervention realizes urban-rural capital transfer and promotes urban-rural interaction by revitalizing idle space and stimulating rural land and other surplus values.However,the existing capital interventions have strong policy welfare attributes and do not fully characterize shift in the rural-urban flow of surplus value,and the risks of weakening the main status of rural residents,low integration of urban-rural interaction subjects,and the"de-realization of capital"still exist.
rural spatial transformationcapital to the countrysideintegrated urban-rural developmentthree cy-cles of capitalurban fringe areas