Abstract
This paper discusses the measures of rural activization through rural tourism development using rural resources. Rural China enjoys abundant resources such as untapped nature, tradition and culture, biodiversity, and agricultural products. Recent economic development, however, has created gap between urban and rural areas while losing traditional rural life styles and destroying rural environment. Against these situations, the paper focuses on mountainous rural area and rural area closed to urban in Liaoning province as a case area of field survey. The questionnaire survey was conducted targeting these areas with several questions related to rural resources, human capability, possible touristic development and policy implication for rural development. The result shows that there is high potential of tourism development, particularly in mountainous rural area if specific policy incentives are given for the development together with rural people's awareness on the value of their resources endorsed.
