Farmers’ Cooperative Behavior: The Three Dimensions Of Rural Public Space

In recent years, pulling in the real demand and promoting relevant national policy, the cooperative movement among farmers in Northwest China has vigorously developed. Since2007, the government issued the "law of the People’s Republic law on farmers’ professional cooperatives", farmers’ professional co-operatives has great progress and improve in quantity and in quality. From the name of farmers cooperatives, which more is to emphasize the cooperation between farmers, most studies from the perspective of economics argue that the occurrence of cooperative behavior is based on common interests, but the reality is that a lot of cooperatives did not appear or no produced willingness is based on common interest. Therefore, more in-depth factor causes the farmer cooperative behavior need to explore and discuss.The behavior of the farmers’co-occurrence of the real economy must be in a certain space which can produce social capital. Reform and opening up30years, our country rural administrative embedded type public space and endogenous type public space are both having had experienced profound change. This article is based on the survey data of parts of Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia Provinces in the northwest China; to visit the changes of rural public space is taking place and research the relationship between different types of rural public space with farmers’ cooperative behavior. Analysts believe that large-scale, high-frequency contact, semi-open public spaces can provide people with the best place of exchanges, produce relatively adequate social capital, and therefore, to promote cooperative behavior occurs most favorable.