What does it mean to move and merge villages?

Relocation and merger refers to villages located in areas with poor living conditions, fragile ecological environment and frequent natural disasters, villages that need to be relocated due to major project construction, and villages with particularly serious population loss. Villages can be relocated and merged through ex situ poverty alleviation, ecological livability and rural agglomeration development. To solve the livelihood and ecological protection problems of villagers as a whole.

The relocated and merged villages can also be divided into two categories: one is an area that is completely unsuitable for life and production development. If production continues to develop, it will destroy the ecology. For these areas, only ecological migration can be adopted. This kind of area is especially typical in some large mountainous areas in the central and western regions. Take Wumeng Mountain in Guizhou as an example, the area is almost surrounded by mountains. People living in deep forests have no roads, water and electricity. A few kilometers in the ravine, there are several scattered families, relying on a hillside in front of the house to support their families. Some villagers in the deep mountains take five or six hours to walk, and many old people have never been out of the mountains in their lives.