Specialized Villages in Inland China: Spatial and Developmental Issues

Xiaojian Li, Xinyue Ye, Xiongfei Zhou, Chunhui Zheng, Mark Leipnik and Fan Lou
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Xiaojian Li: Collaborative Innovation Center of Urban-Rural Coordinated Development, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou 450046, China
Xinyue Ye: Urban Informatics & Spatial Computing Lab, Department of Informatics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Xiongfei Zhou: College of Economics, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou 450046, China
Chunhui Zheng: Collaborative Innovation Center of Urban-Rural Coordinated Development, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou 450046, China
Mark Leipnik: Department of Geography and Geology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77340, USA
Fan Lou: Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development/College of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: The development of specialized villages in China is an interesting trend. This paper studies specialized villages in China by using the rational small household theory, division of labor and specialization concepts, as well as the distance decay and neighborhood effect theories. We use the census data on specialized villages in Henan Province (the largest agricultural province in China) from 2010 as the basis for a case study, applying dummy variables representing sixteen types of specialized villages, and selecting environmental variables, such as land form, location, arable land area, and labor force characteristics. We find that significant factors related to specialization are location and production factors. Policy implications of this research are discussed.

Keywords: specialized villages; rural specialization; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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