Periodic marketing is a unique and imporant socio-economic feature of Chinese ruraltowns, the economic, political, social and cultural centres in rural areas. Through two detailed casestudies in the North China Plain in 1990, mis paper examined the temporal and spatialcharacteristics, especially their interrelationship. of regional periodic market systems and theirrelationship with rural development in modern China. The distribution of periodic market-towns isfound to be on consumer convenience, and to have an apparent hierarchical structure and centralplace characteristics. Further, the spatial coordination system of periodic marketing has a reverserelationship of spatio-temporal synchronisation. Finally, this paper notes that periodic marketingimposes significant influence on rural development through conducting and controlling goods flow and population flow in rural economic system.
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