Participatory Rural Development: An Effective Approach to Promoting New Rural Guizhou Building——Insights from a participatory rural development project in Kaizuo Township,Changshun County;

After reviewing the training project “PRA theory and methodologies”, the reflections gained are: participatory rural development concept is the foundation to learn and master PRA theory and methodologies; application of PRA methods with participatory rural development concept is the important approaches for capacity building.

Based on comparing with traditional agricultural study and extension, we advocate an investigation on participatory agricultural technology development (PTD).

The development of participatory fighting poverty in rural Case in Guizhou Maolan National Nature Reserve;

Participatory rural-appraisal (PRA) survey on Fanjingshan Nature Reserve;

By using participatory rural-appraisal(PRA),the local economic development levels of two villages in Bawangling nature reserve were investigated,and some suggestions for promoting economic development of rural communities and nature reserve protection were presented.

Deepening and Expansion:Explore the Localization of the Participatory Development——The Reviews of Gansu Yutian Rural Development Forum

A working procedure of participatory development research was established on the basis of systematically analyzing the behavior characteristics of rural community, which was conducted by the application of participatory development theory and method in Shuichang County of Zhejiang Province.

According to case studies of three minority community projects of Yunnan Province,the paper uncover up myths of participatory development by its conception overflowing.