Analysis on Influential Factors of Peasants' Willingness to Exit Homestead in Regions with Different Economy Development Levels——Taihe Village,Chaohu County-Level City,and Ancang Village,Taihu County as Examples

The research concluded peasants＇ willingness on homestead exiting and influential factors by questionnaire survey and interviewing in two villages with varied levels of economic development in Anhui Province.Comparisons were performed on subjective factors and objective factors were explored by Logistic regression.The results showed that both of education background and homestead use have positive correlation with peasants＇ willingness on homestead exit;the number of family members has negative effects on peasants in advanced village but the number of migrant workers or members living in cities has positive effects;the area of homestead has positive effects on peasants in underdeveloped village.Therefore,the emphasis should be varied on homestead exit upon village economy and it is necessary to reinforce homestead exit promotion at improving immigrants＇ reception work,social security,employment,and education.

The spatio-temporal heterogeneity of county-level economic development and primary drivers across the Loess Plateau,China

Unbalanced economic growth is a ubiquitous phenomenon while investigating the regional development at a large spatial scale.Therefore,it is of great significance to analyze the spatio-temporal pattern of regional economic growth and the drivers to understand and facilitate the economic development of low development areas.Taking a county as a fundamental study unit,we used the county-level per capita GDP data on the Loess Plateau from 2005 to 2017,and geographic variables such as slope,elevation,and population density to analyze the spatio-temporal differences and the driving factors of the county-level economic development in the Loess Plateau by employing both conventional and advanced quantitative methods including Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis(ESDA)and the geographic detector model.Our results suggested that:(1)The selected indicators,including absolute difference,the fluctuation of relative difference and total difference of economic development on the Loess Plateau,all show steady increasing trends,respectively.(2)There are 64.5%of the counties with economic development being below the average level of the whole Loss Plateau region.The relatively high developed counties are distributed in the"A"-shaped regions in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,Shaanxi,and Henan provinces,however,the low development counties are mainly located in the"V"-shaped regions in Gansu and Shanxi provinces.(3)GDP,investment in fixed assets and urbanization rate are the major driving factors influencing the regional economic development,and the combined effects are far greater than that of any individual factor.