Abstract: With the development of the internet and modern transportation， the villages were connected in a network based on information flow， and the rural space of flows was on the rise. Taking taobao village and tourism village as the example， using the methods of nearest neighbor index， local spatial autocorrelation and kernel density， the overall distribution pattern， structure pattern and forming factors of the rural space of flows in Zhejiang were analyzed. The results showed that taobao village and tourism village overall showed “agglomeration” type distribution， but there was significant difference in the spatial scale of county. Distribution density showed spatial distribution characteristics of the combination of the two forms of surface aggregation and dot like low density， in which the distribution of the surface aggregation was the main form， and presented the typical multi center shape， and the areas of surface aggregation were mixed with small scale discrete point distribution. The spatial pattern of the rural space of flows in Zhejiang presented a “nested” network structure， which had the characteristics of dynamic change， elasticity and network. The factors that affect the spatial distribution of the rural space of flows and the “nested” network structure were the traditional factors and new factors in the information age， such as the internet and transportation， rural resources， knowledge and innovation， government behavior and other factors.

Key words:  village, space of flows, structure pattern, taobao village, tourism village