[1]LI Xiao-kun,WANG Shu-wei.Assessment of the County’s Rurality in the Eco-economic Zone of the Three-Gorge Reservoir Area in Chongqing[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2013,20(01):168-172.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
20
Number of periods:
2013 01
Page number:
168-172
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Public date:
2013-02-28
- Title:
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Assessment of the County’s Rurality in the Eco-economic Zone of the Three-Gorge Reservoir Area in Chongqing
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LI Xiao-kun, WANG Shu-wei
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College of Geography and Tourism, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 400047, China
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- Keywords:
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rural economics; county; rural development type; rurality index; the eco-economic zone of the Three-Gorge Reservoir area in Chongqing
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F127
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- Abstract:
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The eco-economic zone of the Three-Gorge Reservoir area in Chongqing is characterized as a large number of rural populations, high proportions of poor people, and a wide range of poverty-stricken areas. Assessment of the rurality and determination of the development direction are helpful for the promotion of the balancing urban-rural development and new countryside constructions. The data were collected from Chongqing Statistical Yearbook of 2010. The relative proportion of the three industries in the GDP was used to categorize this eco-economic zone into four rural development types which were agricultural-dominated, industrial and mineral-dominated, balanced and business, tourism and service-oriented. On this basis, the rurality of each country was assessed by the indicators of urbanization, agricultural labor productivity, agricultural output growth, the ratio of agricultural output to non-agricultural, highway density, radio and television coverage. It indicated that significant differences exist between similar and different rural development types. There were only three districts which had weak rurality and two counties with significant rurality in the mining and industrial-oriented countries; and there were four counties with middle rurality, and another four counties with significant rurality in the balanced counties. However, all the agriculture-dominated, business, tourism and service-oriented counties were significant. In addition, the development direction for each county of various rural development types were proposed.