A Study On The Impact Of Rural Infrastructure Investment On Agricultural Total Factor Productivity

Since1978, China’s agriculure gained great progress, How does China’s agricultureChina Agricultural maintain steady growth? Currently, more consistent view is that thedevelopment mode of China’s agriculture must undergo the transformation from traditionalagriculture to modern agriculture, and the transformation from extensive to intensive growthpattern. To improve the efficiency of factor inputs, optimize combinations of factors ofproduction, technological progress, organizational and institutional innovation to achievedevelopment of the agricultural economy. Chinese agricultural growth relies on total factorproductivity growth. Many scholars have studied from different angles to analyze China’sagriculture productivity factors, but ignored the role of rural infrastructure investment on TFP.From the perspective of investment in rural infrastructure to study agricultural TFP growthproblems, to develop a scientific investment in rural infrastructure policy,and to. promoteChina’s economic growth mode transformation of agriculture is very important in theoreticaland practical significance.This paper studies the following main problems:1. Study the impact of ruralinfrastructure investment on agricultural total factor productivity from the long-term andshort-term.2. Compare the impact and the conduction routes of rural road investment,irrigation investment and electricity investment on agricultural total factor productivity.3.Compare the difference of productivity growth effect of rural infrastructure investmentamong different zones.4. Analyze the effect of the change of rural infrastructure investmentinstitution on the productivity growth effect of rural infrastructure investment.5. Based on theconclusions of theoretical and empirical analysis on China’s investment in rural infrastructurepolicy recommendations.Thesis is divided into four main parts, the main contents are as follows:The first part includes Chapters1and2. The first chapter introduces the researchbackground, research objectives, research framework, technology roadmap,and importantconcepts and scope of the study. The second chapter reviews the theory of economic growthand public investment, focusing on investment in rural infrastructure and agricultural TFPtwo themes to sort out the existing literature, sum up the main academic point of view, and point out the lack of existing research.The second part is the third chapter, this part is foreshadowing later empirical research.This part introduces Chinese investment in rural infrastructure and agricultural TFP overalltrends with a global perspective. This part first summarizes the scale of Chinese investment inrural infrastructure, compare the investment intensity of of rural roads, irrigation, and ruralelectricity, and also introduced the overall effectiveness of the investment of three types ofinfrastructure In addition, this part applies DEA_Malmquist method to estimate China’sagricultural TFP from1985-2011, and summarizes the trends of China’s agricultural TFP.The third part contains the chapter4, chapter5and chapter6. This part first constructs atheoretic model to describe the impact of rural infrastructure investment on agricultural TFP.Based on the national time series data,this part constructs long-term equilibrium model andshort-tem fluctuation model to analyze the long-term and short-term effect of ruralinfrastructure investment on agricultural TFP. This part also makes use of provincial leveldata to detect the relationship between rural infrastructure investment on agricultural TFP. InChapter5,30provinces are divided into different groups according to agricultural productionconditions, agricultural economics development, and township household density. And then,this paper compares regional differences of rural infrastructure investment effects. In Chapter6, this paper reviews the change of rural infrastructure investment instituions, and comparesthe stage differences of rural infrastructure investment effects among exploration period, thereform period and new rural construction period.The fourth part is Chapter7. This part makes conclusions based on the study of eachchapter, forwards policy recommendations and the issue deserves further study.