Hao Tang Village:A Case Of Contemporary Rural Construction Study

The gist of this article is to analysis the affect of a rural construction project in Xinyang City,Henan Province,and discuss the problems of contemporary government-led rural construction.In the light of the development of anthropology research results,this article responds to current rural development practice of our country.Also it draws lessons from the controversy of the rural construction movement in the 1930s to reflects on the current rural construction practice.The current rural construction movement is essentially funded by the local government,as one of the forces rural construction team,with local governments and foreign investors joint participate in the transformation of the village.All parties have different purposes and interests making.the village's tourism development into a contest of the power.Rural construction team take the role of planning team sign contracts with the local government,as Party B they seldom can change the local political landscape.Foreign investors and government departments can be attached in the project development,the local villagers are relatively weak.Local government,villagers and rural construction team at the beginning of the construction have different positions and demands,but in the construction process,villagers,government officals and non-governmental organizations form a community of interests,the role will occur between each other.During the rural construction movement in the 1930s,Chen Xujing had questioned the representation of rural construction.The current value of rural construction was very limited.The model village could get a lot of money,frequent exposure in the media,in fact,this phenomenon delayed the solution of the rural problem,relatively deprived other rurals'construction resources and development opportunities.The rural construction in Haotang started in the year 2009.In April 2009,Li Changping founded the Xiyanghong Fund,hoping to fuel economic growth in Haotang.In March 2011,Sun Jun,the director of the Beijing Green Cross committee,signed an contract with the Pingqiao District Government,to build a project named The Tea House in Haotang.In March 2013,the establishment of The Tea House in Haotang was finished.From then on,the small village has changed a lot.In 2013,Haotang was titled as "The Most Beautiful Country in China",which sharply advanced the development of the tourism in Haotang,triggering a new round of private investment and construction boom.A large number of related households apply for eco-agriculture projects for the enclosure;the village tourism company,which had a large number of land and assets in project construction afraid of investment risk,only simply running land subletting business;the farmers,after transfer their lands largely invest into homogenize farm stay business.The rural construction team tries to achieve the purpose of re-repairing the local civilization,through the form of villagers' organizations.However,in the concrete implementation,it have to use the administrative capital and execution force promoting the rural construction.The emergence of the gap between rich and poor largely destroyed the village's original social context.