Regarding rural region as a whole

rural geography studies its conditions on economic and social development

characteristics on structure as well as lasw on spatial distribuction from the viewpoints on locality and synthesis.Since the third plenary meeting of the Party’s 11th congress

impressive changes have been made in rural region and lots of new topics have been put into the research work on rural geography. They arc mainly the problem on the transformation of labour power in rural region; the reform and reconstruct of the structure system characterized by resident spots with markets and towns as their centres; the reasonableness of rural production structure and the development of village and town run enterprises; the survey

estimation

development

utilization and protection of resources with terrain as the nucleus; the mode of rural economic development; as well as the whole plan of economic and social development in rural region