Research advance and index system of rural landscape evaluation

Along with China joining in WTO, the environment of rural area would be more open and countryside would face changes that never happened before. Rural landscape evaluation as one of the basic tasks in rural landscape planning and designing,to establish an index system that incorperate economical value, social value, ecological value and aesthetical value of rural landscape becomes fundamental. In this paper,research advances on rural landscape evaluation in China and abroad were summarized. Based on three hierarchical functions of rural landscape, an evaluation index system of rural landscape was designed. The index system included social effects, ecological quality and aesthetical effects.