What will happen to ancestral villages with urbanisation?

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I visited my ancestral village in Jiangmen recently.  While it was nice to see that the local government had recently invested toward landscaping and road access for the village, I also noted that the highrise flats of Shengtang are already on the horizon and inexorably building toward the village (see below):-



I live in a UK, where urbanisation irrevocably changed the landscape, lived through the urbanisation of Singapore and things I saw during my visit look like what rather similar to what I've seen before.

I hope wise decisions will be made early in deciding what to conserve for the future.  It would be good if they could preserve at least one fairly pristine example of the Enping grid type village to remind posterity what many of them/us came from - they should want/need to know.  While the village I visited had only a very few rebuilt homes compared with the pictures of villages I've seen elsewhere, redevelopment is likely to continue until there is little left of the past anywhere.  It would be a mistake to neglect vernacular architecture and only choose to preserve the "pretty" postcard villages with diaolou or pitched tiled roofs.