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Chinese Rural Economy is supervised by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and sponsored by Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It aims to focus and study the major problems that need to be solved in China’s rural reform and development, as well as the important rural policies of the CPC and the government. Its scope covers rural situation and policy analysis, the system of rural property rights, rural land problems, and transfer of human capital and labor in rural areas. It has become an important window for the world to know Chinese rural economics and Chinese rural reform and development theories. The journal is included in CSSCI.
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Zhang Xiaoshan

An analysis on ecological consciousness of family farm production and its influencing factors: an empirical analysis based on monitoring data of nationwide family farms

CAI Yingping;DU Zhixiong

Chinese Rural Economy,2016,No. 12

Effects of agricultural machinery on the substitution intensity of labor force and food output

WANG Ou;TANG Ke;ZHENG Huamao

Chinese Rural Economy,2016,No. 12

With the advancement of urbanization in China and the exodus of the rural labor force, the agricultural production in China is developing in the direction that relies more on machinery input. It is very important to recognize the influences of agricultural machinery on intensity of labor force substitution and grain output, as well as the differences of the influences between different grain varieties and different time and space. Based on the Chinese villages’ fixed observing point from 2003 to 2014 of the farmer households’ panel data, this paper calculated the elasticity of input-output of the machinery and the labor force and the elasticity of technological substitution between them through the tranlog production function. Research results showed that the development of agricultural machinery had effectively replaced the agricultural labor force, and promoted the increase of grain production. However, the substitution intensity of agricultural machinery for labor force showed differences in time and space between different varieties of grain. Specifically, from 2003 to 2014, wheat and rice’s values of elasticity of the machinery-labor technological substitution were constant, and formed the substitution of agricultural machinery for the labor force. Corn’s value of elasticity of the machinery-labor technological substitution increased from −0.744 to 0.101, and the relationship between machinery and labor force evolved from complementarity to substitution. As for comparing the substitution intensity of agricultural machinery for labor force, rice was higher than wheat, and wheat was higher than corn. As for comparing different areas, the substitution intensity of agricultural machinery for labor force in plain areas is higher than that in non-plain areas. Therefore, considering the differences of the development levels of agricultural machinery in different areas and food varieties, the emphasis on technological innovation and promotion of agricultural machinery should be inclined to corn and non-plain areas in future.

Grain logistics under emergencies*: the decision-making framework for the emergent allocation of grain reserves based on scenario responses

LI Fengting;HOU Yunxian;SHAO Kaili;QIAN Xiangming

Chinese Rural Economy,2016,No. 12

Non-agricultural employment, land transfer and productive efficiency of agriculture: an empirical analysis based on CFPS

QIAN Long;HONG Mingyong

Chinese Rural Economy,2016,No. 12

Effect evaluation of agricultural subsidies: incentive effect and wealth effect

LI Jiangyi

Chinese Rural Economy,2016,No. 12