Rural Resilience in China and Key Restriction Factor Detection

Yuheng Li, Chuanyao Song and Huiqian Huang
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Yuheng Li: CAS Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Chuanyao Song: CAS Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Huiqian Huang: CAS Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: Enhancing rural resilience plays an important role in sustaining rural development when certain rural communities’ decline becomes an inevitable process in the world. The paper evaluates China’s rural resilience and investigates the spatio-temporal differences of rural resilience across the country in the period 2000–2018. Theoretical analysis indicates that rural resilience determines how and to what extent rural communities interact with external challenges. Empirical analysis shows a slight increasing tendency of China’s rural resilience that remains below the median level. Rural resilience in Eastern China, which has a developed economy, is higher than that in Central and Western China. Compared with social resilience and engineering resilience, economic resilience is found to be the key restriction factor to China’s rural resilience in the research period. This is mainly attributed to rural laborers’ outflow to cities. The same findings are also seen in China’s three regions. Policy implication emphasizes the importance of prioritizing rural economic growth to realize China’s rural revitalization strategy.

Keywords: rural resilience; rural decline; rural revitalization; rural evolution; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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