Rural Community Terminology

A rural community is a relatively complete regional social ****somebody consisting of a certain number and quality of people living in the countryside.

Rural communities are the earliest communities to emerge in human society, formed during the emergence of primitive agriculture. With the emergence of primitive agriculture, people could obtain a more reliable means of subsistence by growing crops on relatively fixed land.

Creating more stable living conditions for human beings, people began to settle down and formed the most primitive villages, giving rise to the earliest rural communities. Rural communities from the emergence of modern society has gone through three stages of development: primitive rural communities, traditional rural communities and modern rural communities.

Types of Rural Communities:

1. Scattered Village Communities

It is the small scattered villages that were originally formed or formed due to special geographic circumstances. This type of community is characterized by: generally low degree of development, the degree of agglomeration is not high, three or five families, seven or eight families together, non-relatives that is. Most of the residents are engaged in planting and farming, single economy, frequent exchanges between residents, know each other very well, watch out for each other, close relationship.

2, set the village community

It is a larger number of people, larger, more concentrated villages, generally dozens or even hundreds of households living together, mostly in the plains, coastal, along the transportation, delta and other places for the settlement.

3, market town community

By the development of the village, has become a small rural political, economic and cultural center. In modern market towns, there have been processing industry, commerce, service industry, etc., this kind of community has become a small rural commodity distribution center and rural industrial base.