Transition of Land Use and Occupation at Mountain Villages in Fujian Province, China

The Case Study of a Natural Village in Jian-ou County

Abstract

This is a fieldwork about the transition of land use and occupation at a natural village in moutaineous area of Fujian Province, China. After a pavement reached to the village in 1986, the villagers changed their occupations from rice farming for their self-sufficiency to gathering pine timber. After pine trees ran dry around 1994, they began mainly manage chestnut field and bamboo forest for producing commodity. Rice field area has been decreasing all thorough the time after the nation's shift to a route of reform and liberalization. Half of villagers now live in town near the village. They keep on managing chestnut field and bamboo forest besides making other jobs outside home village.