摘要 : Periodic marketing is a unique and important socio-economic feature of Chinese rural towns, the economic, political, social and cultural centers in rural areas. Through two detailed case studies in the North China Plain in 1990, t... 展开 Periodic marketing is a unique and important socio-economic feature of Chinese rural towns, the economic, political, social and cultural centers in rural areas. Through two detailed case studies in the North China Plain in 1990, this paper examined the temporal and spatial characteristics, especially their interrelationship, of regional periodic market systems and their found to be on consumer convenience, and to have an apparent hierarchical structure and central relationship of spatio-temporal synchronization. Finally, this paper notes that periodic marketing imposes significant influence on rural development through conducting and controlling goods flow and population flow in rural economic system. 收起