Innovative Rural Eco-developments to Deliver Integrated Urban-rural Development for a Sustainable Model:the Case of Anji
研究浙江安吉县通过规划引导的生态经济模式,整合基础设施、可再生能源、竹产业、食品集群和生态旅游,实现内生性城乡生态发展,可为新农村建设提供参考。
The paper explores the concept of the eco-economy in relation to innovations and policy changes taking place in the Anji County,Zhejiang Province,China.Through plan-led development processes a new model of the localised eco-economy is developing based upon a cluster of complementary production and consumption.The spheres of which consists of settlement infrastructure developments,renewable energy and recycling,bamboo clusters,food clusters and ecological tourism(Nongjiale).This represents the new form of more endogenous rural and urban eco-development in China which could be replicated and applicable in progressing the New Countryside Movement more generally.The analysis suggests that concepts like the eco-economy and their associated dynamic rural and urban ‘webs'are applicable in the Chinese context,and that such processes could proliferate through careful and innovative plan-led processes in the endowments of regional and local resources.