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Emmanuel Véron (2013) "Rural tourist spaces in the Yangtze River Delta, between town-country integration and rural development", EchoGéo [Online], n° 26 | published online on 19 December 2013, accessed 06 January 2014. URL: http://echogeo.revues.org/13607 ; DOI: 10.4000/echogeo.13607AbstractDomestic tourism in China is still a little discussed topic in French geography. However, the touristic phenomenon is under diversification and maturation. The recent interest of city dwellers to discover and travel to the countryside as an "elsewhere whishes" gives new perspectives in geography, in particular, new relationships between urban and rural world. The national policy of rural modernization "construction of new socialist countryside" from the 11th five year plan (2006-2010) provides a rural tourism planning. We take the lower Yangzi area to exemplify a spatial organization of rural tourism around Shanghai.ContentsIntroductionThe evolution of a domestic tourism industry: a new interest for the countrysideFree time, leisure timeIncreased tourist mobility on the city outskirtsA fresh appreciation for the countryside?Typology of revitalised spaces for and by tourism: the result of a new ruralityThe villages and water towns of JiangnanChinese rural guesthouses or NongjialeParks and agritourismThe spatial organisation of rural tourism in the outskirts of ShanghaiThe expansion of tourism to the rural outskirts beyond municipal boundariesThe municipal territory of Shanghai, leisure outskirts of an emerging metropolis?Around the Lake Tai: a tourism strategy for short staysNew urban-rural relationships: the role of rural tourismConclusionThe article is written in French. Read it here.