Poverty alleviation through land assetization and its implications for rural revitalization in China

Wang

2021

Land

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Promoted by rapid industrialization and urbanization, the structure and spatial pattern of farming in China has changed greatly, and nongrain farming (NGF) has become more common. However, excessive NGF in some areas is not conducive to sustainable agricultural development and threatens China’s food security. In this study, we briefly analyze the stage characteristics of NGF in China and investigate the spatial agglomeration of NGF and its influencing factors from the perspective of spatial econometrics. The results showed that the average annual growth rate of NGF in China from 1985 to 2019 was 0.64%, and there was a growing positive spatial correlation between NGF in each province. Spatial Durbin model (SDM) estimation showed that both the per capita disposable income of local rural residents and the local urbanization rate promoted the development of NGF, while local per capita farmland, road density, and the functional orientation of the main grain-producing areas had a negative impact on NGF. The per capita disposable income of rural households and urbanization rate in neighboring areas had a promoting effect on the development of NGF, while road density in neighboring areas was negatively correlated with NGF. Ultimately, some targeted measures are proposed to promote China’s agricultural development in the new era.

Section: Limitations and Future Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying the Determinants of Nongrain Farming in China and Its Implications for Agricultural Development

Wang

2021

Land

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“…China was once a developing country with the largest poverty-stricken population in the world (Liu et al, 2017;Guo and Liu, 2021). In the long-term process of poverty reduction, the underdeveloped central and western regions, where the poor is concentrated, are also facing the problem of the sustainability of poverty alleviation, which is similar to other developing countries (Liu et al, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After antipoverty stages such as relief-type poverty alleviation under planned economy, poverty alleviation through structural reform, development-oriented poverty alleviation, National Eight-Seven Poverty Alleviation Plan, entire-village advancement poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation, China has developed a sustainable antipoverty road with Chinese characteristics (Liu et al, 2018;Guo et al, 2019a;Fu et al, 2021). In 2020, China successfully achieved the goal of eradicating absolute poverty under the current standards as scheduled, which was ten years ahead of schedule for the goal of "no poverty" in the UN sustainable development agenda and made great contributions to global poverty alleviation (Guo et al, 2018;Guo and Liu, 2021).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable poverty alleviation and green development in China’s underdeveloped areas

Liu

2022

J. Geogr. Sci.

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In 2020, the decisive victory of building a moderately well-off society in all aspects means that absolute poverty in rural China has been completely eliminated. Consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and establishing a long-term mechanism to solve relative poverty have become key issues in high-quality development of underdeveloped areas. In this study, human-earth system is employed to analyze the element composition, structural organization and functional state of underdeveloped areas. The results show that poverty in underdeveloped areas stems from the lack of the coupling and coordinating mechanism among human, economic, resource and environmental elements, which is not conducive to transforming the ecological advantages into the advantages of regional development. In the antipoverty stage, underdeveloped areas innovate the human-earth coupling and coordinating mechanism through a series of targeted measures, promote the organic combination of poverty alleviation, ecological conservation and sustainable development, and boost the transformation of regional development and the increase of farmers’ incomes. Focusing on the 14th Five-year Plan (2021-2025) and the long-term goal of 2035, governments in underdeveloped areas should make full use of the policy support to explore scientific methods of modern governance and sustainable development. In particular, it is necessary to practice the concept that “clear waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets” and take the road of the ecologicalization of industry and the industrialization of ecology by establishing a policy system of “green land”, “green people”, “green industry” and “green right”, thus building an endogenous growth mechanism of sustainable poverty alleviation and green development in China’s underdeveloped areas.

“…China is the most populous developing country in the world [8,9]. The long-standing problem of insufficient food and clothing makes the Chinese government attach great impor-tance to agricultural development and continue to strengthen financial and policy supports to improve grain production capacity and ensure national food security [10][11][12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Currently, China's socialist modernization has entered a new stage of high-quality development, and the focus of rural development has shifted to rural revitalization [9,34]. In this context, the Chinese government actively promotes the construction of ecological civilization to optimize human-earth relationship and achieve the sustainable development of agricultural system [35,36].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatiotemporal Changes of Chemical Fertilizer Application and Its Environmental Risks in China from 2000 to 2019

Wang

2021

IJERPH

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Chemical fertilizers are important inputs in agricultural production. They not only increase crop yield but also bring many negative effects, such as agricultural non-point source pollution. Therefore, a scientific understanding of the regional differences in chemical fertilizer application and its environmental risks is of significance to promote China’s agricultural development. In this study, we analyzed the spatiotemporal pattern of chemical fertilizer application intensity (CFAI) in China since 2000, evaluated the environmental risks of provincial CFAI, and investigated the internal mechanism behind them. The results showed that the total amount and intensity of chemical fertilizer application in China from 2000 to 2019 presented a trend of increasing first and then decreasing. In 2000 and 2019, provincial CFAI in eastern China was generally higher than that in central and western China, and the environmental risks of provincial CFAI were spatially characterized by “high in the north and low in the south”. Factors such as poor soil conditions, unreasonable farming structure and backward fertilization methods are the main reasons for the continuous increase in the total amount and intensity of chemical fertilizer application, while the construction of ecological civilization and the transformation of society and economy are the main reasons for their decline. Finally, measures such as targeted fertilization, adjusting the use structure of chemical fertilizers, improving fertilization methods and replacing chemical fertilizers with organic fertilizers are proposed to promote the quantity reduction and efficiency increase of chemical fertilizer application in China.