How many villages are there in China?

There are ***69 15 10 villages in China.

Traditional villages in China, formerly known as ancient villages, refer to villages built before the Republic of China. On September 20 12, the first meeting of the expert committee on the protection and development of traditional villages decided to change the customary name "ancient village" to "traditional village".

Traditional villages are rich in historical information and cultural landscape, which is the greatest heritage of China's farming civilization. It has retained a great historical evolution, that is, the architectural environment, architectural style and village location have not changed much, and it has a unique folk customs. Although it has gone through a long time, it still serves people today. To show its civilized value and inheritance significance.

The differences between natural villages and administrative villages are as follows:

1, the composition is different: the natural village is a natural village formed by villagers living together for a long time. An administrative village is a village-level administrative unit managed by a county-level government, and generally consists of a large or small natural village.

2. Different affiliation: Natural villages belong to administrative villages. The natural village is managed and led by the administrative village Committee and the village party branch.

3. Different management: the management of administrative villages is self-management by villagers, and the rights lie with villagers' committees. There are no villagers' committees in natural villages. Natural villages are generally smaller than administrative villages, which are the most basic units in the chinese administrative division system, and have power institutions such as villagers' committees or village offices. The natural villages in the northern plain area are usually larger, and the natural villages in the southern hilly water network area are usually smaller.