Why rural revitalization matters in 2025 and beyond?

Why rural revitalization matters in 2025 and beyond?

Rural revitalization is not just a strategy and it won’t happen on its own. How to deepen rural reforms and further unlock the potential of rural areas? Why is the year 2025 pivotal in this journey? China expert Robert Lawrence Kuhn will share his insights on China’s grand vision for rural revitalization and explain why it matters.

In the autumn of 2024, Airbnb had already made the observation that the French were plebisciteing a holiday in the countryside. Indeed, 25% of the reservations of stays in France were then made in the rural departments, confirming then a real trend, which then seems to persist on 2025. Some rural communes recorded a real boom of research in one year. Have you ever visited them? Why do the French choose to go to the countryside? In a recent press…

ESIRA webinar – Breaking the cycle of rural decline

29 April 2025Online Join the first policy event of the ESIRA project on 29th April 2025! The webinar will provide evidence-based perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in rural areas, more specifically on the cycle of decline driven by job shortages, limited access to essential services, and outmigration, particularly among young people. This trend weakens local economies, accelerates population ageing, and threaten…

NEWS Collective tribune – Revitalizing rural areas: an emergency for social cohesion 6 March 2025 • NEWS Covering 80% of the national territory and housing 60% of the population[1], rural areas are increasingly fragile. Closures of public services, medical deserts, exodus of young generations, economic precariousness have a clear result: almost one in two rural residents feel rather rejected by current French society[2]. But we, elected represen…