Journal of Rural Studies“中国乡村重构”专刊设立的简要背景（英文）

<正>Rural China has experienced a rapid and far-reaching transition in the past three or four decades since Deng Xiaoping launched economic reforms in 1978.As China evolves into a majority urban country,these processes present a number of challenges to the rural areas which have been confronted with significant changes and subsequent restructuring of rural socio-economic morphology and territorial spatial patterns,including changes in demographic structures,employ-