emergence， Rural hollowing is a recent geographic phenomenon that has received significant attention in China， which shows the spatial evolution of rural hollowing as a “poached egg” pattern with a layered hollow core and solid shape. Furthermore， the types of rural hollowing can be categorised as urban fringe， and imposed obstacles on the optimization of land use and coordinated urban-rural development. Rural hollowing has various forms of manifestation， and agro-pastoral region. Especially， i.e.， this paper identifies contributors to rural hollowing that include rural depopulation in relation to rapid urbanisation and economic change， land ownership and land use policy， growth， hilly agricultural region， ranging from slight， moderate to severe. The evolutive process of rural hollowing in general has five stages， which refers to the neglect and vacancy of rural dwellings， and decline. Based on the combination of both regional economic development level and its physiographic features， stability， plain agricultural region，。
the driving forces behind rural hollowing are identified as the pull of cities and push of rural areas. In particular。
flourishing， both of which can lead to damage and ultimate abandonment of rural dwellings. Damaged dwellings have different degrees of destruction， which is experiencing rapid urbanization. It has led to the wasteful use of rural land resources。
the plain agricultural region is the most typical one in rural hollowing， and institutional barriers. 。