Villages of China

Villages (Chinese: 村; pinyin: Cūn), formally village-level divisions (村级行政区; Cūn Jí Xíngzhèngqū) in China, serve as a fundamental organizational unit for its rural population (census, mail system). Basic local divisions like neighborhoods and communities are not informal, but have defined boundaries and designated heads (one per area). In 2000, China's densely populated villages (>100 persons/square km) had a population greater than 500 million and covered more than 2 million square kilometers, or more than 20% of China's total area.^[1]

Types of villages

Rural

A typical rural village in Hainan, China

The building housing the local village committee and other government offices and organizations in Baiwan Village, Xiqiuwan Township, Badong County, Hubei

• Administrative village or Village (Chinese: 行政村 or 村; pinyin: xíngzhèngcūn or cūn)
• Gaqa (Chinese: 嘎查; pinyin: gāchá) only for Inner Mongolia.
• Ethnic village (Chinese: 民族村; pinyin: mínzúcūn) only for village populated by Ethnic minority.
  • Village committees (simplified Chinese: 村民委员会; traditional Chinese: 村民委員會; pinyin: cūnmín wěiyuánhuì)
    • Villager groups (simplified Chinese: 村民小组; traditional Chinese: 村民小組; pinyin: cūnmín xiǎozǔ)

Note

Natural village (Chinese: 自然村; pinyin: zìráncūn) one that spontaneously and naturally exists within rural area, which is not an administrative division.

Lists of village-level divisions

Villages (村)

List of villages in China

Provinces

• List of village-level divisions of Anhui
• List of village-level divisions of Fujian
• List of village-level divisions of Gansu
• List of village-level divisions of Guangdong
• List of village-level divisions of Guizhou
• List of village-level divisions of Hainan
• List of village-level divisions of Hebei
• List of village-level divisions of Heilongjiang
• List of village-level divisions of Henan
• List of village-level divisions of Hubei
• List of village-level divisions of Hunan
• List of village-level divisions of Jiangsu
• List of village-level divisions of Jiangxi
• List of village-level divisions of Jilin
• List of village-level divisions of Liaoning
• List of village-level divisions of Qinghai
• List of village-level divisions of Shaanxi
• List of village-level divisions of Shandong
• List of village-level divisions of Shanxi
• List of village-level divisions of Sichuan
• List of village-level divisions of Yunnan
• List of village-level divisions of Zhejiang

Autonomous areas

• List of village-level divisions of Guangxi
• List of village-level divisions of Inner Mongolia
• List of village-level divisions of Ningxia
• List of village-level divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region
• List of village-level divisions of Xinjiang

Municipalities

• List of village-level divisions of Beijing
• List of village-level divisions of Chongqing
• List of village-level divisions of Shanghai
• List of village-level divisions of Tianjin

See also

• Ethnic villages of China
• Organic Law of Village Committees

References

Bibliography

• Ellis, E.C. (2004). DeFries, R. S.; Asner, G. P.; Houghton, R. A., eds. "Ecosystems and Land Use Change" Long-term ecological changes in the densely populated rural landscapes of China (PDF). Geophysical Monographs. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union. 153: 303–320.
• Joseph Esherick; Mary Backus Rankin; Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.) (1990). Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06763-9.
• Roxann Prazniak (1 January 1999). Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-9007-7.

External links

• Chinese Village Government Information Network
• Two Chinese Villages, Two Views of Rural Poverty
• Long-term changes in China's village landscapes are changing the world