The Protection And Development Research Of Ancient Towns In Southern Shaanxi Province

As a country of long history, glorious culture and vast territory, China has got a large number of ancient towns left behind by the elapsing years. These ancient towns which truly record the evolution and the fusion process of different regions, different nation as well as the different culture of this country, are an essential part of our history and culture heritage. In recent years, the importance and significance of protection to these ancient towns have been realized, and in Southern Shaanxi Province, attribute to the isolated geographical position and transportation, and under-developed economy, the ancient towns preservation is comparably in good condition, therefore it appears to be especially important to carry on the protection and the development research to the ancient towns in this area.Based on the summaries of related domestic and foreign research, this article focuses on 10 ancient towns in Southern Shanxi. With the aid of AHP, it constructs the evaluating indicator system, grades and classifies each ancient town, and then proposes different protective measures and development direction according to the ranks, in the hope of coordinating and promoting the development of the regional city system so as to bring the ancient town to a fully play. The main conclusions include:(1) Constructed the Southern Shanxi ancient towns'evaluation system. The ancient town is composed of the material part and non-material part, and the protection measures government carries on also affect the ancient towns'development. Therefore, the evaluation system is composed by the material cultural heritage target, the non-material cultural heritage target and the protective measures evaluating indicators. This article carried on the lamination deconstruction to the ancient town indicator system through the AHP(analytic hierarchy process) method to calculate the proportion each evaluating indicator occupied, thus to construct suitable for the Southern Shanxi ancient towns'evaluation system. (2) Through analyzing present protection and the development situation of the Southern Shanxi ancient towns, the evaluation system constructed in this paper grades 10 ancient towns and classifies them into three ranks according to the former grade. Then the SWOT analysis is carried on based on the classification to build a good foundation for its future development direction and the protective measures.(3) This paper also formulates the Southern Shanxi ancient town development principle and the targets, under the guide of which the protection measures and the development direction for various kind of ancient town are studied.