Emergy-Based Evaluation on the Systemic Sustainability of Rural Ecosystem under China Poverty Alleviation and Rural Revitalization: A Case of the Village in North China

Yinan Xu, Yingxing Zhao, Peng Sui, Wangsheng Gao, Zhijun Li and Yuanquan Chen
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Yinan Xu: College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Yingxing Zhao: College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Peng Sui: College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Wangsheng Gao: College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Zhijun Li: Office of Organic Agriculture, Lingqiu County of Shanxi Province, Datong 034400, China
Yuanquan Chen: College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-16

Abstract: A number of new rural management models have emerged to solve the problems of economic backwardness, insufficient resource utilization, and technical shortages in rural areas in the context of poverty alleviation to the rural revitalization strategy in China. However, the influence of new rural management model under all countermeasures for rural sustainable development with a comprehensive perspective is lacking. Therefore, exploring whether the new rural management model meets the requirements of sustainable development is an urgent issue. From the theory of system metabolism and emergy accounting method, this study classified the government funds for poverty alleviation measures as import resources, and analyzed the metabolic structure, efficiency, and the rural development factors of Chehe Village before and after poverty alleviation measures are carried out (the year of 2012 and 2019) to verify whether the new model was sustainable. According to the results of this study, the new management model of Chehe Village declined the rural system sustainability with the emergy sustainability index decreasing from 1.96 in 2012 to 0.32 in 2019. With the development of economy, the system metabolic efficiency of Chehe Village promoted and the metabolic structure became more reasonable manifesting in the decline of emergy use per unit GDP and the increase of emergy exchange rate. Moreover, production and livelihood had been highly valued in Chehe Village. In conclusion, it is feasible to add countermeasures of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization into the village system metabolism. The new management model of Chehe Village needs to change exogenous force into endogenous force to meet the requirements of rural sustainable development.

Keywords: system sustainability; poverty alleviation; rural revitalization; emergy; system metabolism; Chehe Village (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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