费孝通
Fei Xiaotong wrote, "Jiangcun Economy", a work that had a huge impact on anthropology and sociology, based on his first-hand data from his investigations in "Jiangcun" (Kaixiangong Village, Jiangsu Province). To compare social processes from different stages and make more scientific inferences, soon after the restoration of sociology, Fei Xiaotong began to trace Jiangcun. When Fei Xiaotong visited Jiangcun for the third time in 1981, he clearly proposed a plan to establish a social survey base in Jiangcun. In December of the same year, under the guidance of Fei Xiaotong, an investigation team composed of sociologists from Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, and other places came to Jiangcun for investigation. In the future, such investigations and studies continued to be carried out. By 1985, Fei Xiaotong organized the Jiangcun 50-year research team again to conduct a systematic, comprehensive, and in-depth investigation of the changes in Jiangcun for half a century and obtained a large number of valuable results. His works such as "Three Visits to Jiangcun", "Nine Visits to Jiangcun", and "Fifty Years of Jiangcun" have demonstrated his proposition that "there are more people and less land, and agriculture and industry are complementary". Since then, the research on Jiangcun is still developing in-depth. In 1993, he published Shen Guanbao's "A Quiet Revolution: Industry and Society in Southern Jiangsu's Rural Areas", which put Jiangcun into a macroscopic view of social changes and examined Jiangcun's social, economic, and cultural changes. In addition, other scholars have also conducted a lot of research on rural communities. For example, Zhang Yulin's "The Transformation and Modernization of Villages" and "A View of the All-round Social Development Issues from a Village in Southern Jiangsu", through a village survey, pointed out that the overall progress of society and economic development are interdependent and mutually promoted. There are also articles such as Zou Nongjian's "Towards Modernization of Southern Jiangsu Rural Areas" and other articles.