A Regional Comparative Study Of Rural Resident's Consumption

Since reform and opening up, Chinese macro-economic develops at a rapid speed, meanwhile, it exposes a lot of problems. The most prominent problem is that the absolute gap between the growth rate and consumption. Some other problems exist such as, weak regional consumption expenditure, irrational consumption structure and the declining of contribution to economic growth of regional consumption. To increase the income of rural residents is an important way to improve the consumption rate, to achieve the rationalization of the consumption structure, and to promote regional economic growth. The paper makes research on the regional difference of rural resident's consumption under the framework of consumption and welfare economics. Consumption economics studies consumption expense, analyzes consumption structure and consumption behavior by using economically analytical method. Welfare economics pays close attention to the issue of increasing resident's income, raising resident's benefit level through policy making and implementation. From the point of view of expanding employment and increasing income, the paper's study framework is as follows. This paper is to build the economic analysis framework of evaluation of quantitative evaluation for the level of consumption spending of Chinese rural residents, consumption structure and consumption contribution to economic growth, based on consumption function economic theory. And the quantitative research and quantitative analysis is used as the main tool to divide China's 31 provinces into five consumption regions. The paper also makes comparative analysis and systematic study on the rural residents, such as, the level of consumption spending, consumption structure and consumption contribution to economic growth, based on the regional classification by using normative and empirical analysis, alternating horizontal and vertical comparison to find the causes of lagging, to put forward suggestions for the increase of the fourth, the fifth of the region's income and consumption. The expansion of investment in education, building a scientific and reasonable mechanism for skills training can improve the skills of the rural population, increase non-farm employment and non-farm income. From the point view of the consumption cost, to improve the ecological environment and infrastructure conditions and to raise the level of the rural market can lower consumer costs. At the same time, to increase policy advocacy and policy guidance, to change consumption attitudes of rural residents and to reduce unnecessary waste of consumption can increase the level of consumption expenditure of rural residents, can optimize the consumption structure and can narrow the gap between different regional consumption. The Thesis has a strong theoretical and practical value.This paper is composed of four parts (including eight Chapters).The first part (including the first, second chapter) focuses on the research background, research purpose and its significance. It made a comprehensive evaluation on the research of the consumption structure, consumption contribution to economic growth, consumption function. It also states the idea of research, research methods and its innovations. Then, the second chapter defines the related concepts of consumption, discusses the contents and principles of regional consumption, and evaluates the theory of consumption demand, of regional non-balanced and of coordinated development. It develops methods of measurement for the comparative consumption of rural residents and derives model for it.The second part (the third chapter) explores the rural consumption evaluation index system of regional classification. Taking into account the specificity of the rural residents'consumption, the principle, the statistical significance of indicators, data availability and research objectives and tasks, it designs nine indicators of China's 31 provinces for an empirical analysis, and eventually identifies five categories of consumption regions. And it will provide a platform for comparative study between different regions and it will be useful for regional classification of the consumption research.The third part (including the fourth, fifth, sixth chapter) elaborates the consumption expenditure evolution and the changeable tendency, analyzes the quantitative value of local and the regional expense difference. The fourth chapter explains the evolution history of rural income and consumption from 1993 to 2006 and the change tendency as well as the development situation after 2000. We can see that the absolute number of residents in consumption spending and the relative proportion of the consumption structure in the eight sub-regional and regional spending differences are clear. Fifth, sixth chapter makes quantitative determination of real difference between provinces and regional consumption on the basis of the comparative analysis of rural consumption data and consumption trends by using the weighted coefficient of variation, cross-elasticity of substitution, ELES Model, Panel Data Model and other analytical tools, and the results mentioned above showed that the rural consumption expenditure, consumption structure and consumption contribution to economic growth are significant, that the difference between provinces is larger than it between regions and that differences in income and consumption trends continue to expand.The forth Part (including the seventh, eighth chapter) analyses the impact of consumption of rural residents and the reasons for differences and puts forward countermeasures and suggestions. Among them, Chapter VII states that there are seven key factors for the impact of regional differences on the basis of empirical analysis. The paper showed that the first and second category of rural regional income and level of consumption are higher, the third category is in the middle level of the region. Therefore, the key solution is to increase the fourth, the fifth category of the rural residents'income and consumption levels, to optimize their consumption structure, and ultimately to reduce the gap between the region in order to promote the coordinated development of regional economy. Chapter VIII puts forwards some suggestions, such as creating a good policy environment, expanding investment in education and promoting employment, raising incomes, promoting regional economic development, changing consumer attitudes, improving the ecological environment and infrastructure conditions, raising the level of rural markets, etc.In the end, the paper concludes the shortcomings of this study, the future research's outlook and direction.This thesis obtains some conclusions: (1) based on the previous research results, and by using principal component analysis, the paper divides the country's 31 provinces into five different types of consumer area. It lays the foundation for the comparative study;(2) by using synthetic data model and empirical research on the consumption of different provinces and different regional rural residents in the contribution rate of consumption on economic growth, the paper concludes that no significant correlation between"regional level of economic development"and"rural household consumption's contribution to regional economic growth rate";(3) based on the use of a weighted coefficient of variation between provinces and regional differences and empirical study, the paper states that the inter-province and inter-regional differences in consumption expenditure of rural residents after 1993 showed divergent trends, and that the divergent trends of provinces spending is more apparent than that of five types of inter-regional.