China Population, Resources and Environment最新文献

The process of evaluation and compensation for environment or resources is a complex research field involving environment science, sociology, and economics. This essay mainly discusses the process from the sociological view and proposes the related paradigm. The possible problems during the process were pointed out: acceptor/donor may make an immoderate price by taking the advantage of the specialty of the environment/resources, using information asymmetry, or colluding with middleman; may cause behavioral transformation; may lead to unexpected results when the policy was not effectively making and evaluating; may result in insufficient supply of products with positive externalities being lack of enough physical or symbolic inspiration. The following methods might be helpful to improve the situation: establishing an effective supervising system, encouraging the development of cross-bencher evaluating organizations, encouraging the development of Non-Governmental Organizations, encouraging the public participation, and setting up the effective market.

At present, main objective of Chinese government is building a harmonious society, which needs great efforts to promote harmonious development between people and nature as well as people and people. Implementing eco-compensation has been proven effective for achieving the objective. In fact, Chinese government has begun groping for establishing eco-compensation system since the beginning of 1980's and has obtained some experiences until now. However, eco-compensation system in China is still unperfected and has not played an important role for building a harmonious society and promoting sustainable development in today's China. An integrated and effective methodology system is still not formed, and there are still many problems need to be resolved. Based on these problems and experiences from China and other countries, this study attempts to give some suggestions for perfecting eco-compensation system of Chinese government.

In this article, the reforms of rural institutions and agricultural products' circulation system in China and the changes in national regulation on agricultural economy in the past thirty years were reviewed. The importance of rural land tenure reform and the pursuits of a rural market economy system to the sustained growth of agriculture for 30 years in China were recognized. Entering into the new millennium, under the New Countryside Initiative, a series of favorable policies, in the areas of rural finance, education, social security, and ecological restoration, were put into force to boost rural economy toward modernization. These policies resulted in the effect of abundant supply of agricultural products, improved rural livelihood, reduced farmer fiscal burden, rising farmer income, and increased capacity for multidimensional development in rural area. This article analyzed the issues of “San Nong” and stipulated that future policy will focus on supporting agriculture production, increasing investment in rural infrastructure, as well as enhancing coordination between urban and rural development goals.

In this study, an econometric model about population mobility and economic growth is used to show the unbalanced distribution of population mobility in different region was remarkably related to that of regional economic growth and the large number of movers had a significant influence on regional economic growth and developing disparity. On the basis of this study, we conclude that China's population mobility also had a significant influence on the structure and tendency of regional disparity, and the population mobility enlarged the regional disparity of the whole nation, the East, and the West since the reform, besides the Midst during 1978 to 1987. Furthermore, the population mobility accelerated the increase of regional disparity in the whole nation, the Midst, and the West, but at the same time, retarded that in the East in the period of 1996–2003.

Since the reform and opening-up, the difference between the development of the west region and the other regions in China is increasing. In addition, the condition of the development of cities in west China needs amelioration. Developing conditions of the west provinces and its cities using economic barometers (e.g. gross domestic product (GDP) and per capita GDP) and urban population datum (e.g. urbanization level and city primary degree) have been analyzed in this article. Five indexes have been chosen to work on the development of the provinces, for example, the contribution degree of the increment in GDP, the contribution degree of the increment of per capita GDP, urbanization level, city primary degree, city primacy ratio. Conclusions are as follows. (1) The growth of the GDP and per capita GDP of the western provinces is in a poor way; moreover, it is not steady going. (2) The comparability among the characteristics of the urbanization level growth of the provinces is at a low level. (3) The urbanization levels of Inner Mongolia province and Sinkiang province are more-sensitive responders to the growth of per capita GDP, whereas those of Guangxi province and Tibet province are less-sensitive responders. (4) The urban population in most of the provinces are highly concentrated, which can be shown by city primary degrees and city primacy ratios. While working on these cities in west China, some earlier zone-organic cities are chosen as sample cities, and these cities are also analyzed using economic barometers and population datum. By analyzing the difference among the cities and comparing the research findings of Professor Zhou and the author, the following conclusions are made: (1) the growth of the GDP and per capita GDP of the cities are mostly not steady going; (2) the middle and big cities are more-sensitive responders to the growth of economy, whereas the small and mega cities are less-sensitive responders; (3) the sizes of southwest cities have a higher speed than those of northwest ones, and furthermore, the differences between them are still increasing.

With the rapid propulsion of the industrialization and urbanization, it becomes a common problem which every country must face in the period of its urbanization that rural surplus labor flow to cities in a large scale. As the first two biggest demographic provinces in China, Shandong and Henan have millions of rural surplus labor, and at the same time, the two provinces cover the similar area. Thus, on the subject of rural labor transfer, the two provinces have much comparability. Considering Shandong and Henan as examples, the author analyzes the transfer modes of rural labor in the aspects of transfer region type, transfer industry type, transfer population type, transfer time type, and transfer income. On this basis, the author builds regional nonequilibrium degree index system of rural labor transfer. And the author makes the quantitative analysis and a comprehended evaluation of Shandong and Henan provinces' regional nonequilibrium degree of rural labor transfer.

The study on population and the resource-environment by the consumption may contribute to the further cognition about their correlations and provide the policy references for natural resources use and environmental protection. This article has studied the impact status of the consumption level difference of China's 31 provinces or autonomous regions on the resource-environment in 2005 by per capita consumption expenditure and serial statistical data with unit person method and constructed consumption model and hierarchical cluster analysis. We found several trends. To the intensity that population acting on the resource-environment, four sorts of regions might be divided in 2005, furthermore, most of them were at the level of unit person. Provinces or autonomous regions, located in the developed coastal areas in China, generally have the bigger impact intensity on the resource-environment than the others. That is to say, the natural resources mainly flow from west to east and from north to south, but the environmental loads are shared in the whole China and are likely to be aggravated from east to west reversely. The main causes of imbalance of pressure on the resource-environment should be the difference of consumption level, the unmatchable resource exploitation and utilization, the imbalance of discharging pollutants, and the difference of moderate carrying capacity. To the total impact quantities that population acting on the resource-environment, four sorts of regions were divided in 2005 and the difference of them was notable. Provinces or autonomous regions, having the bigger impact quantities on the resource-environment, are generally located in the eastern and central China while the extended western China is still the weak impact area of the resource-environment consumption or terminal pressure. Provinces or autonomous regions are few, where the total impact quantities are more or less; alternately, those are many, where the total impact quantities rank the middle.