Fair is commonly known as shopping or other business. This activity has existed since ancient times. Every two days, people gather in a market from all directions to buy household necessities, such as clothes, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and so on.
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Markets are mostly located in central villages and towns, temple resorts and urban fringe areas, with moderate location and convenient transportation; It can also be extended to a place or settlement for trading, called a market town. Rural market town is the basic unit of economic spatial network, and it is at the lower level of central place in the concept of central place system. With its special function and scale, it has both connections and differences with towns in the general sense.
Market towns are mainly economic activities, based on their economic functions. It is the starting point of rural commodity purchase and the end point of commodity sales, and it is responsible for the functions of rural means of production and means of subsistence, as well as the acquisition and trading of agricultural products.
Generally speaking, there are special trading places in market towns. For the convenience of management and transaction, all kinds of data are concentrated in a certain range, not interfering with each other, but integrated. Rural market towns also have the functions of education, medical care and entertainment, and are the main places for rural residents to entertain and communicate. Local governments in past dynasties have tried to control rural areas below the county level through market towns.
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