Now that we explore the process of Party-state interventions in outdoor leisure in macroeconomic perspective, it is time for us to investigate how outdoor leisure is provided by microeconomic level and practiced or consumed by urban Chinese.
This section firstly demonstrates diversified types of outdoor leisure organizations nationwide, and then it specifically demonstrates the similarities and differences of outdoor leisure practices among three sites. 3.1. The Outdoor Leisure Organizations
The development of outdoor leisure organizations is parallel with the economic reform and opens up. From the nationwide perspective, outdoor leisure is hierarchical framed, leading by the Chinese …show more content…
Hence, reforms were undertaken in the service related sector, as mentioned before, institutional changes, such as the legislation of the double leisure day or weekends and public holidays as well as paid leaves, loosen control in the outdoor sector to other social agencies, the establishment of corresponding administrative departments overseeing the operation of the market as well as the implementation of supportive policies (e.g. taxation relief). It is under these circumstances that various forms of capital ranging from foreign to private flow into this outdoor leisure sectors. In this vein, different types of outdoor leisure entities were …show more content…
Following that, we not only organized various kinds of outdoor activities such as camping, bicycling, mountaineering, trekking and etc. but also held seminars once or twice a week. During those three years, we have arranged almost a hundred of reading topics ranging from geography to ecology, and from photography to visual anthropology. Among our guest speakers, there have been scientists, professional photographers, artists, free lancers, journalists and experienced (laolv) “donkeys” who have set feet on the most off-beat places. Till now, there have been more than five hundred people coming to these reading seminars, and more than thirty each