Specialized Villages in Inland China: Spatial and Developmental Issues Academic Article

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.

authors

• Ye, Xinyue

published proceedings

• SUSTAINABILITY

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Li, X., Ye, X., Zhou, X., Zheng, C., Leipnik, M., & Lou, F.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Li, Xiaojian||Ye, Xinyue||Zhou, Xiongfei||Zheng, Chunhui||Leipnik, Mark||Lou, Fan

publication date

• August 2018

publisher

• MDPI  Publisher

published in

• Sustainability  Journal

keywords

• China
• Rural Specialization
• Specialized Villages

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3390/su10092994

start page

• 2994

end page

• 2994

volume

• 10

issue

• 9

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10092994

user-defined tag

• 15 Life on Land