Under the background of the normal epidemic situation, the survival and development problems confronting the "Loong" and "Feng" counties stall economy are investigated, hoping to help the stall economy adapt to the post-epidemic era. In this paper, questionnaire survey and field interview are used to get first-hand information about the real life of street vendors in ethnic areas, and from the perspective of grounded theory, it is found that the occurrence of street vendors is affected by the values and rules of the social situation in which they are located, so as to have a deeper understanding of informal groups such as street vendors. At the same time, it is found that the social and economic development of "Loong" and "Feng" counties tends to be integrated.

Wu Linping, Lu Xiao, Zhou Shuyu, Lan Simi, Wang Yuxin. A Sociological Study on the Market Economy of "Long" and "Feng" Counties in the Border Ethnic Areas of Hunan and Hubei Provinces. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 4: 146-152. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.050421.

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