According to Associate Professor Li Yuheng of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor Liu Yansui of China’s College of Resources Science and Technology. The two professors spoke at a three-day colloquium on rural spaces that ended on Tuesday in HCM City. Rural economics and spaces have experienced various transformations due to the dynamics of development, with modernisation of agriculture, urbanisation and globalisation contributing significantly to the changes. Globalisation has brought both opportunities and challenges to various aspects of the rural system. It has improved agricultural productivity but at the same time placed farmers in financial difficulties. In addition, it can have a negative impact on cultural values of residents in rural areas.
…Long Hualou at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said that land consolidation could help restructure rural production, living and ecological space. The model and approach for rural spatial restructuring includes farmland concentration under large-scale management and administrative reorganisation, he said. Restructuring can be enhanced by innovations provided by land consolidation engineering technology and new policies, he added…