Abstract: Public culture space in the rural areas refers to the physical space serving as vehicle of collective memory, customs, history and culture of the villages. It is a space of great importance embodying exchange, communication and integration of the ethnic groups. Forging a strong consciousness of community for the Chinese nation to promote construction of rural public culture spaces in the areas inhabited by minority ethnic groups is the inevitable requirement for adhering to the main work line in the aforesaid areas, making use of the functions of culture spaces and accomplishing the objective of rural revitalization. A field investigation shows that while notable achievements have been attained in adhering to the main line to construct public culture spaces such as building public facilities, organizing cultural activities, creating cultural atmosphere and providing cultural products and services in the villages under the jurisdiction of Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, problems do exist such as space isolation, over homogeneity, limited mass involvement and low standardization in construction. To solve the above problems, the paper suggests an optimized path to promote rural public culture space construction through forging a strong consciousness of community for the Chinese nation from four aspects–ideological guidance, subject definition, content optimization and procedure standardization. These measures are of both theoretical and practical significance for national unity, social stability and development of rural culture.

Key words: forging a strong consciousness of community for the Chinese nation, public culture space, rural revitalization