A Strategic Study On Increasing Farmer's Income In Shandong Province

The utmost socioeconomic problems in China are issues concerning agriculture, countryside, and farmers, while farmer issues are the surpreme ones. And the core of farmer issues is the problem of income increase. Both central government and territories have paid much attention to this problem these years, which is regarded as the top task of all levels of Party Committee and local governments.In this paper, the author reviews farmers'income situations in the past twenty-plus years in Shandong province, including the change in the composition and the features. He compares the income differences in the countryside and the town, as well as differences between regions, and makes a further comparison) between Shandong and several costal provinces. Through the investigation of one hundred villages that have a leap in farmers' income and the typical income-increasing farmers, main factors that restrict the growth of farmers' income are then fixed from eigth aspects such as resource, industry, composition, history and system. In the end, the author proposes some measures to solve this problem in Shandong province, such as regional development, agricultural structure adjustment, technological progress and urbanization, including both microscopic points and macroscopic poicies of nation's level, so as to supply the decision-making departments with some theoretical and practical basis.