基于河南省11村的1251农户调查数据的分析表明:①农村发展的主要障碍是资金缺乏以及农区发展环境约束,农民自身素能(如缺乏技术、文化水平低等)也有一定影响。②农区发展中最希望得到的外部支持是给项目建厂或提供资金支持,还有一些农户期望政府提供其他发展生产上的帮助。③农户对未来的期望以改善生活条件为主,且随着未来时间段的变长,他们的总体期望变得更加模糊。④多数农户(占样本71.58%)对其生活现状”基本满意”或”满意”。⑤农户对其发展的考虑,受多种因素的影响。其中家庭收入状况、受教育水平、地理环境等的作用更为明显。基于农户视角对农区发展的分析,对有关农区发展政策的设计有借鉴意义。
This study uses the data from a sample survey conducted in April 2007 on 1251 rural households living in 11 villages of Henan, the largest less developed agricultural province in China, to examine the behaviors of rural households arid regional development. The result indicates that, firstly, rural households mainly attribute the obstacles to the development of rural areas to insufficient funds, unfavorable environment which includes poor infrastructure, isolated geographical location, lacking industrial plants, and little arable lands; at the same time, less potential capability of individual peasants, such as lack of technology, poor education background, also adds to the problems to some extent. Secondly, the farmers' expectation for the external support in future years in the development in rural areas is to set up plants or draw outside investments in those areas. Some households hope that the government should help to create favorable development atmosphere for the villages. Thirdly, rural households wish, in the first place, to improve their living standards in near future, yet their final expectations become more inexplicit with longer time spans. Fourthly, most rural households (claims 71.58% of total samples) consider their contemporary living status as "merely satisfactory" or "satisfactory". This indicates that as long as their living standard is improving, rural households will feel happy. Fifthly, there are an adequate amount of rural households who have no clear idea of the concurrent obstacles to the local economic development, the necessary external support, and the expectation of future development. According to the questionnaires, those who "have no idea" on the 3 items above take up as much as 7.0%, 14.3% and 29.1% of the total samples respectively. Finally, among the factors which have strong influence on rural households in designing their future development, family income status, education level, and geographical environment is more prevailing. The findings from this study