A Comparison Of Urban And Rural Residents Consumption In Hubei Province

National economy is a circulation of production, allocation, exchange, and consumption, in which consumption plays a leading role because products are made for consuming and only persistent increasing consumption can ensure continual economic growth. Therefore, to activate consuming market is a key to push the economic circulation moving well. But, as a result of imbalance regional development in China, there exists a huge economic gap between eastern and western areas, and western provinces become bottleneck in national market levering. Hubei Province locates in the middle of China, suffering a dual urban-rural structure in both politically and economically; the consuming level and structure are in great disparity from its urban area to rural regions. During almost 30 years of economic system reform and opening, the gap actually becomes wider and wider.This dissertation applies economic consumption theories to the research, tries to outline the differences between urban and rural residents consuming, as well as consuming behaviors in Hubei Province, and probes into the causes that results in these economic phenomena with the help of comparison and empirical research methods. The researcher aims to name to traits and laws of evolvement of the residents consuming behavior so that could come up with practical advices for government policy to urge both urban and rural areas develop healthily.On base of a brief review of economic consumption theories, both consuming and consuming behavior of urban and rural residents are compared and analyzed systemically with statistics analysis approach and Econometric models. The comparison work can be grouped into three levels. The first level is comparison on the consuming level and consuming structure in urban and rural areas, tries to find the changing tendency and the influential factors; in the second level of comparison, the consumption behaviors are compared on a base of external and internal environment analysis for varying periods; the third level is specific research and comparisons on consumption of certain products such as food, education, traffic and communication. All the comparisons are base on large quantity of data.The main conclusions drawn from the research are as follows:1. In different period, the consuming level, consuming structure and tendency of Hubei residents have different characters. The consuming level keeps rising, despite of...