Second homes, amenity-led change and consumption-driven rural restructuring: The case of Xingfu village, China

Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China

“…While they can buy 10‐year leases of property and can participate in aspects of community life, the rural dual structure means that the newcomers are always outsiders, and will never become ‘real’ locals in the manner that might occur in other countries (Qin, 2016). As a result, out‐migration in China is currently time‐limited and associated more with amenity‐led consumption than with the more profound lifestyle changes found in the West (Wu & Gallent, 2021). To this extent, it is more easily understood as a form of long‐term tourism usually associated in the West with the acquisition of holiday and second homes (Hall, 2016; Huang & Yi, 2011; Larsson & Müller, 2019; Wu & Xu, 2018).…”

“…For Wu and Gallent (2021), this migration to the city edge is associated primarily with amenity‐led consumption, as part of a ‘postsocialist’ transition in China (Yang & Zhou, 2018, p. 120) in which leisure and tourism practices are beginning to seep into—and inform—new urban/rural lifestyles (Zhao, 2019; Zhou & Chan, 2019). For others, particularly Qian et al (2013), the centre‐periphery shift is, superficially at least, redolent of Western forms of gentrification in which urban dwellers with significant cultural capital seek to create new rural idylls in settings that are distinct from, but accessible to, major urban centres.…”

“…For Wu and Gallent (2021), this migration to the city edge is associated primarily with amenity-led consumption, as part of a 'postsocialist' transition in China (Yang & Zhou, 2018, p. 120) in which leisure and tourism practices are beginning to seep into-and inform-new urban/rural lifestyles (Zhao, 2019;Zhou & Chan, 2019).…”

Enabling In-Situ Urbanization through Digitalization

“…In this vein, rural residents are enabled through diverse innovative practices and knowledge-intensive skills [56]. The diversification of the economic base of rural communities has often been read as a shift toward post-productivism [57,58]. Accordingly, farmers, immigrants, and second-home owners living in rural areas reap momentum equipped with digital skills and sufficient funding in this mixed post-productivism milieu and thus play a proactive agency role in the rural progression featured by the intertwined and mutually constitutive production of hybridity, diversity, and heterogeneity [59].…”

Bilateral matching decision-making for rural homesteads withdrawal patterns and types of peasant households’ welfare needs: Evidence from China in the context of land spatial planning regulation

“…Differentiated withdrawal patterns for rural homesteads should be designed in accordance with farmers' welfare demands for homestead withdrawal. With the implementation of the national spatial planning strategy, rural socio-economic development is entering a new phase, and the multifunctional development attributes undertaken by homesteads in different regions have been reflected following their withdrawal [ 3 , 13 , 14 ]. In this context, influenced by policy environment and subjective cognitive differences among farmers regarding the multifunctional value of homesteads, the post-withdrawal multifunctional utilization of homesteads exhibits spatial differentiation characteristics, and different peasant households also have distinct welfare demands for homestead withdrawal.…”