China still has a huge gap of development between its cities and villages. Hopefully living standards in small towns and villages will also experience modernization and improvement.
My own experience is different .While a village may not boast 5 star hotels, bars, expensive salons, malls and resorts it
does have:
- Excellent schools
- Hospitals , both Western and traditional,
- Police Stations with a fleet of modern police cars.
- Technical Schools
- Modern Food stores with both frozen and fresh vegetables, fish and meat.
- Clean hygienic eating houses, tea rooms, noodle and soup houses.
- Hardware stores with facilities for rental tools.
- Farmers markets for produce and livestock.
-Vehicle dealerships ( small ones) for service and maintenance of farm equipment.
-Bus and where applicable rail stations.
- Public restrooms . lots of them.
- Water tower
- Power station or distribution substation/
-Feeder road to the nearest expressway.
- Where applicable a small trolley or train station.
- A single fueling station selling gasoline/petrol, paraffin, and diesel oil.
- Gas "bullet" . Or underground gas tank storing LPG for cooking and heating and a vending station selling LPG cylinders.
- There are lots of e-bikes and small neighborhood electric vehicles.
There used to be bathhouses and neighborhood rest room facilities but these have mostly vanished since China underwent a massive housing reform project and moved to a nuclear family system living in modern single family homes. Usually these are town homes.
