Table 2 Development guides for rural settlements in Lueyang County.
Settlement Type | Development Guide |
|---|---|
Centralized promotion | • Enhance industrial scale based on transportation conditions to drive the development of surrounding settlements. • Focus on building urban-style residential communities and logistics points. • Upgrade existing public service facilities. |
Reserved development | • Complete industrial support construction in collaboration with regional center communities. • Concentrate on developing new rural communities. • Actively build high-grade roads connecting village roads to surrounding areas while maintaining current public service quality. |
Resilient shrinkage | • Demolish or renovate remote, low-value buildings within settlements. • Gradually reduce construction land and public service facility scale. • Encourage sharing of public services with neighboring villages. |
Urban-rural integration | • Develop urban agriculture, logistics storage, and elderly care industries relying on transportation to complement the county seat’s functions. • Open urban-rural buses and build a slow-moving system between urban and rural areas. • Construct city-level public service and welfare facilities in accessible areas. |
Characteristic protection | • Explore settlement characteristics, inherit cultural elements, and encourage tourism industry development. • Use photovoltaic technology for eco-friendly renovations of traditional buildings. • Collaborate with surrounding settlements to establish a tourist loop. |
Relocation | • Develop a schedule for demolition and resettlement, gradually guiding the population to regional center communities. • Compensate villagers’ resettlement costs through construction land adjustments and cultivated land balance mechanisms. |
