The journal makes deep searches on rural reformation and development and shows current condition of chinese villages in different points of view. Main readers include researchers of rural economics and theory institutes, teachers and students of higher education and people who search rural economics and social problems.
To analyze influences on inter-regional labor flow across urban and rural areas caused by the discriminatory policy of treatment and reimbursement in other places regulated by the new rural cooperative medical system (NCMS), this study adopted data from fixed observed rural sites in seven major labor-exporting provinces from 2007 to 2011 to conduct an empirical analysis. The results showed that reimbursement rates of the local counties increased by 10%, the probability of rural laborers choosing to work in local counties will increase by 1.9%. Meanwhile, the increase in reimbursement rates of local counties had significant negative influences on rural laborers' initiative for working in other provinces. On the other hand, the implementation of the NCMS cannot promote farmers' incomes due to negative influences on the rise of rural labor capital, the return of laborers from other provinces to local counties, and the supply of labor force.
Local experiments of integrating medical insurance have caused the situations of diverse policy selection, isolation of the design of the system norm and the paradox of system integration into re-fragmentation. The paradox of re-fragmentation of the system integration highlighted deep problems: the re-segmentation of competent authorities’ decisions, distortion of integration paths and anomie of system integration content. The fundamental solution to break the deadlock of local re-fragmentation of system integration is to take the opportunity of establishing implementation regulations of Social Insurance Law to make general plans and design the normative systems of unity with differences in basic medical insurance in top-level so as to form the systematic, comprehensive and oriented institutional systems for integrating basic medical insurance and implement the system integration from the top down.
Based on the 2277 rural middle-aged and elderly samples in CHARLS baseline survey in 2011, using Heckman's two-stage method, this paper studies the effects of chronic diseases and acute diseases on agricultural labor participation and agricultural labor time of rural middle-aged and elderly people and the differences between them. The results show that although the chronic disease does not have significant effects on the possibility of participation in agricultural labor of rural middle-aged and elderly people, it causes a significant reduction in their agricultural labor time. The shock of acute disease not only greatly reduces the possibility of participation in agricultural labor of rural middle-aged and elderly people, but also significantly reduces their agricultural labor time. In addition, there are age and gender differences in the effects of health shocks on agricultural labor supply of the middle-aged and elderly people in rural areas. Health shocks significantly reduce the possibility of participation in agricultural labor and the agricultural labor time of the rural elderly people, but the effects on the agricultural labor participation of the rural middle-aged are not significant, only significantly reducing their agricultural labor time. The negative impacts of health shocks on the agricultural labor participation and agricultural labor time of the rural female middle-aged and elderly people are greater than those of the male.
By adopting survey data of the policy of financial awards and subsidies based on One Discussion over Each Matter for construction of village-level public welfare in Gansu Province in 2011, this study firstly established a system of indicators for evaluating performance of the policy of financial awards and subsidies based on One Discussion over Each Matter for construction of village-level public welfare from the perspective of evaluating performance of public projects. The system included five first-level indicators and 17 second-level indicators. The five first-level indicators were organizational leadership, managing projects, managing funds, institutional construction, and effects of work. Then, the weight of each indicator was determined via the Multi-Analytic Hierarchy Process (Multi-AHP). Finally, the paper evaluated and ranked performance of the policy in six sample counties by adopting the formula for calculating comprehensive evaluating values. The results suggested that degrees of villagers' satisfaction, publicity and training, quality of the project, the implementation of the project, and the working mechanism were the most important influencing factors for performance of the policy of financial awards and subsidies based on One Discussion over Each Matter for construction of village-level public welfare. From the above five aspects, stimulating the initiative of the government, the village collective, farmers, and other subjects, forming effects of collaborative governance, and improving the mechanism of management gradually are helpful for improving performance of the policy of financial awards and subsidies based on One Discussion over Each Matter for construction of village-level public welfare continuously.
In the year 2008, a reservoir resettlement region in Anhui Province took the lead to establish a villagers’ self-construction system for rural public infrastructure, which effectively hit the existing governmental agent-construction system in terms of construction efficiency and cost effectiveness. To find out the impact of this innovative system on social justice, this article selected effective sample data from 564 households of 27 resettlement villages and 29 non-resettlement villages in Feidong County of Hefei City and Yu’an District of Liu’an City, and made a comparative analysis of subjective and objective fairness of rural households under two systems by the binary Logistic model. The results proved that: speaking of objective fairness, resettlement households who were subject to the influence of villagers’ self-construction system had a lower poverty-returning rate than non-resettlement rural households. Compared with non-resettlement villages, the practice of self-construction system by villagers in resettlement villages promoted the increase of rural households above the poverty line; in terms of subjective fairness, resettlement households’ feelings about the income gap were more affected by the system of rural public infrastructure construction while non-resettlement peasants’ feelings about the income gap were mainly affected by mechanical input per mu and contracted area per capita.
Climate change which is mainly characterized by warming is a serious global challenge. Based on the description of the relationship between climate change and agricultural production, this article made a literature review on the transformation of agricultural production in China, whose aspects included content and pathway of the transformation of agricultural production as well as different subjects' behavior adapting to climate change in the agricultural chain. Then, some research shortcomings were pointed out. By analyzing comprehensively related research at home and abroad, it could be found that the subject barriers were obvious among different disciplines, which resulted in the deviation on evaluating the impact of climate change on agricultural production. Meanwhile, related research did not distinguish the differences of the behaviors adapting to climate change among different kinds of subjects, and the macro data and micro data didn't combine effectively. Besides, the qualitative studies on peasant households' behavior adapting to climate change were the majority, but the quantitative research was deficient. In addition, the research visual angle was unitary, and the research from the aspect of the transformation of agricultural production was also deficient. Therefore, five perspectives were raised for the future research. Firstly, a more comprehensive analytical pathway and a more mature model should be built. Secondly, assumptions combining with the characteristics of subjects should be established. Thirdly, a dynamic research combing panel data and cross-sectional data should be conducted. Fourthly, the measurement method should be improved and the difference of different subjects' behavior adapting to climate change should be distinguished. Finally, multi-discipline research should be reinforced and the synthetic model which can combine the micro data and macro data should be explored.
