Evolution Mechanisms of Rural Hollowing in Loess Hilly Areas:From the Perspective of Population Migration Theory
The hollowing out of rural areas is a phenomenon of large-scale idle and abandoned rural homesteads in the process of rapid industrialization and urbanization,which has been an urgent problem to be solved in the comprehensive implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.Based on the perspective of population migration,this paper constructs a theoretical framework for rural population migration from three dimensions:urban attractiveness,farmers'willingness to migrate,and macro policy en-vironment.The paper analyzes the mechanism of population migration affecting rural hollowing,and quantitatively analyzes the evolution law and driving mechanism of rural hollowing through the construction of the rural hollowing indexes,taking D village located in loess hilly areas as an example.It is found as follows.① With the development of macroeconomic and changes in poli-cy environment,the settlement space of D village has gone through stages of internal migration of residential areas,rapid expan-sion of villages,differentiation of new and old villages,and revitalization of idle residential land.Accompanied by this is the evo-lution process of the emergence period,development period,prosperous period,and stable period of rural hollowing.② The hol-lowing out of D village is driven by the core factor of population migration,which is the result of the interaction between the in-ternal migration succession of settlements and rural population loss.From a temporal perspective,the initial rural hollowing is mainly influenced by the dominant role of residential renewal,which is manifested as the hollowing out of homesteads.After the demand for housing construction is saturated,the dominant role gradually weakens,and the implicit role caused by continuous population loss becomes the dominant factor of rural hollowing,and the degree of hollowing out gradually intensifies.③ Affect-ed by the internal and external support conditions of rural development,rural hollowing may exhibit differentiated trends such as re-solidification,steady hollowing out,and developing hollowing out.The process and evolution direction of rural hollowing can be regulated through institutional reform,basic investment,and industrial development.
rural hollowingpopulation migrationinternal successionloess hilly areas