Evaluation, Regional Disparities and Driving Mechanisms of High-Quality Agricultural Development in China

Yaoyao Wang and Yuanpei Kuang ()
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Yaoyao Wang: School of Economics, Hunan Agriculture University, Changsha 410125, China
Yuanpei Kuang: School of Economics, Hunan Agriculture University, Changsha 410125, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 7, 1-20

Abstract: Based on China’s new development philosophy and the connotation of high-quality agricultural development, this study constructed a six-dimensional comprehensive evaluation framework: innovation-effectiveness-sustainability-coordination-openness-sharing. The spatio-temporal-range-improved entropy approach and the Dagum Gini coefficient were applied to evaluate and analyze the level of regional disparities and the dynamic distribution characteristics of high-quality agricultural development in China in the period from 2010 to 2018. The result shows that the level of high-quality agricultural development in China has steadily improved in general, but there exist prominent structural problems. Concerning regional differences, it indicated a pattern dominated by the pattern of “high in the east and low in the west”, mainly arising from the inter-regional disparity, with a gradual downward trend during the selected period. This study also comprehensively explored the four-dimensional driving mechanisms (production conditions, productivity, production relations, and production efficiency), and further examined the driving paths of various variables and regional heterogeneity using a panel Tobit model.

Keywords: high-quality agricultural development; regional disparity; driving mechanism; spatio-temporal range improved entropy approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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