Abstract:

As the urbanization in China continuously advances, a large number of peasant, who possess rich human capital and social capital, are moving into cities. And so, social capital of remaining peasant gradually reduces, remaining peasant who are lack of social capital are becoming poorer. The authors think that cultivating the social capital of remaining peasant and improving their ability of exploiting social capital is a fundamental path to properly resolve rural issues and carry out new rural construction. However, competition for resources between city and rural, scarcity of their own resources, selfishness of civil society organizations and the rural elite, and so on, becomes a series of barriers to cultivate and apply social capital of remaining peasant. In order to overcome these barriers, people should overall establish the mechanism of considering together the development of city and rural and pay more attention to rural development. At the same time, in order to richen the social capital of remaining peasant, people should specially build such a series of platforms as expanding types of education and training, improving infrastructures, guiding non-governmental organizations, utilizing the activities center of villagers.