Chinese scholars say China needs to do more to preserve and protect traditional villages and ancient architectures, both disappearing from China at excruciating speed.
When it comes to a traditional village, the concepts of development and protection often seem contradictory. Every coin has two sides, and businessmen may have their own side of the story to tell.
Fast facts about Chinese tradtional villages.
Chinadaily.com.cn spoke with experts to find out how the world preserves traditional villages and what China can learn from their examples.
How and why we should protect China’s traditional villages and rural culture is a discussion that can go on and on. Thanks to the insiders, experts and entrepreneurs who talked to us in this special coverage, our insight into Chinese traditional villages has gone one step further.
China has a huge numbers of villages and wide varieties of folk culture, and future development of villages is upon all of us. When everybody adds fuel, the flames rise high. Let's hear what a volunteer has to say.
Though his pen name "Mo Yan" means "don't speak", the Nobel laureate had plenty to say about traditional culture and preschool education at the annual session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
About 900,000 natural villages have disappeared over the past 10 years and the situation is becoming more serious than anticipated, Feng Jicai, a famed writer and CPPCC member, said on Wednesday.
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