Experience in Community Building in the Taiwan Region and Its Implications for the Implementation of the Rural Revitalization Strategy in Mainland China

Objective/Meaning  The rural revitalization in Mainland China faces the challenges such as administrative tendency, insufficient participation of residents, and industrial homogenization. Taiwan has accumulated mature experience in community building for more than 30 years. By combing its development context, experience and dilemma, it can provide theoretical and practical reference for the revitalization of rural areas in Mainland China, helping to solve the problems of rural development.

Methods/Procedures By taking the core framework of “people, culture, place, industry, and landscape” built in Taiwan region’s community as the starting point, its core experience such as policy, stakeholders, and strategic actions was systematically analyzed, and the realistic dilemma in its development was reflected on. Based on the national conditions of the Mainland China, an analytical framework of “experience refinement-dilemma reflection-insight transformation” was constructed to explore the pathways of localization practice.

Results/Conclusions  The Taiwan region’s community building has established a model of collaboration between government, civil society, and professional forces to effectively deal with the rural development issues, but there were still problems such as fragmented policies and excessive reliance on subsidies. Based on the national conditions, the Mainland China should learn from the experience and avoid the lessons from the five dimensions of policy, stakeholders, industry, culture, and ecology, build a localized path of coordinated development, and promote the endogenous development of rural revitalization.