| Chinese agriculture is now transforming from traditional to modern one. Industrialization of eological agriculture is the trend of modern agriculture development. Resource-based enterprises have important impacts on the environment. With nearly 40 years of development, Shengli Oilfield has imposed vast impacts on the environment in its area. In the last 10 years, environmental protection has drawn much attention from the State and local governments resulting in a number of new environmental protection policies. In December 2009, the Yellow River Delta Efficient Eco-Economic Zone Development Plan was approved officially by the State Council. Since then, the development of Yellow River Delta has been promoted to be a national strategy, and eco-economy will become the future in this area. Dongying City is the central city of the Yellow River Delta, and is also the main site of Shengli Oilfiled. This thesis tries to evaluate the model of ecological agriculture development in Dongying region of Shengli Oilfield. The models are evaluated in the county-level, sector-level, and the household level. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used. Data are from statistical yearbooks of research sites and also from field survey including rural household survey.The research findings are as follows:Ecological agriculture has been regarded as one of the main approaches for the Dongying region to restore environment and pathway to sustainable economic growth in the area. Through the development of many years, Dongying City has formed 6 models of ecological agriculture. Dongying has some advantages to promote ecological agriculture such as in policies, resources, location, and agricultural industy etc. However, the development of ecological agriculture in Dongying also faces some challenges, such as weak agricultural base, fragile ecology, deficiency of capital for construction, relatively short of human resources, lack of grassroots participation, and lower degree of agricultural industializaiton etc.With the support of national agriculture comprehensive development program, the development of ecological agriculture has achieved some successes at the county level of Dongying City. Based on its natural resource, environment and agricultural conditions, Kenli County has developed six ecological agiculture models. Evaluation indicates that from 2004 to 2008, overall efficiency index of ecological agriculture in Kenli County has continued to rise, but the ecological index of ecological agriculture in Kenli County is lower.Dongzao (a breed of Chinese date harvested in late autum or early winter) industry has been one of important dimentions of Donging City's ecological agriculture development. With qualitative and quantitative analysis, it shows ecological agriculture industralizaiton in Dongying is still in its infancy, and its salient features are that i) market, enterprises, bases and farmer have been connected togther, ii) most farmers are engaging in intensified and specialized production. Ecological agriculture industrialization of Dongzao in Dongying faces some challenges such as small scale of production, underdevelopment of market, and insufficient technological support. In 2008, economic development index of Dongying is 1.89, corresponding environmental quality index is 1.04, integrated environmental and economic index is 1.82, and coordination Index between economy and environment is 0.35, which means that economy and environment in Dongying is unbalanced.Rural Biogas Projects is one of important approaches to promote ecological agriculture. Research results show that since the implementation of the Biogas Project, to a certain extent, the family income of project households has been increased; household working time of project households has been decreased clearly and their work load has been reduced too. With the training programs organized by the project, their social contact range has been also extended; their living environment has been improved greatly; and farmers'life comfort has been increased clearly. Farmers can understand the related knowledge about biogas and use it safely. Meanwhile, Biogas project also has active impacts on rural females, such as reducing work load, improving their status in the family, extending their range of social contacts, and improve their physical and mental wellbeing, etc. The research shows that the Biogas Project improves ecological coupling mechanism among biomass pool, animal breeding and crop farming, and the project households who are mainly engaged in animal breeding can achieve higher comprehensive benefits.The thesis also discusses how to establish the mechanism of ecological compensation for ecological agriculture. |