An Empirical Research on Civilized Eco-villages Sustainability in Hainan
Huan-jing Chen1, Ruo-tuan Chen2, Sheng-bai Jin3, Yin Li3 , Ming-xuan Zhang4
1
2
Hainan Trade Institute of TAFE, Haikou 571127, PR China
Hainan Foreign Language Institute of TAFE, Wenchang 571321, PR China, Corresponding Author
3
Hainan Institute of TAFE, Haikou 570216, PR China
4
College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China
(chenhuanjing888@126.com)
Abstract - The combination of civilized eco-villages
construction, socialism new rural construction, Hainan
Ecological province construction and international tourism
island construction provided a way of solving Three Rural
Issues and fully realizing well-off society. This paper is
dedicated to explore ways of new rural construction of
Hainan in aspects like overall features, patterns, core
motivations and endogenous capacity of sustainable
development, and promote suggestions on sustainable
development of Hainan civilized eco-villages construction.
B. Create prosperous life with green well-off
Keywords-Civilized eco-villages, Sustainability, Empirical,
Research
Eco-culture is the generalization of people's attitudes
and activities towards nature, and corresponding belief,
ideality, ideas and behaviors. Major considerations are:
rural cooperative medical service coverage, rural
endowment insurance coverage, average number of
agricultural technician in ten thousand, Gini coefficient of
rural population, popularizing rate of ecological education
in small or medium-sized kindergartens, average
education year of rural population, culture and
entertainment spending proportion of rural area, etc.
I. INTRODUCTION
Since 2000, great achievement has been observed in
the civilized eco-villages’ construction in Hainan, but the
construction remains in its elementary stages. From the
regional point of view, this paper is to study the core
driving forces and endogenous capacity that influence the
civilized eco-villages sustainability, and discuss the rural
sustainable development of Hainan in the context of new
rural construction, city and countryside integration and
international tourism island construction, exemplifying
the capability of developing civilized eco-villages in
Hainan, and proposing the advice that international
tourism island construction should be developed in the
direction of benignity and mutual benefit with civilized
eco-villages, the scientific foundation of development.
II. INTENSION ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABILITY
A. Develop production and ecological economy
Civilized eco-villages can be activated by developing
green ecological tourism economy and making changes in
traditional rural economic increase. Major considerations
are: net income per peasant, proportion of primary
industry, proportion of rural ecological tourism economy,
cyclic economy giving priority of methane, popularity of
methane, pollution-free fruits and proportion of
agricultural acreage, etc.
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This paper is supported by Hainan Ministry of Education Higher
Education Research Funding "A study on civilized eco-villages
sustainability in the context of Hainan international tourism island
construction". Grant No.: hjgk2011-86.
Green well-off means the comprehensive well-off
dominated
by
ecological
optimization.
Major
considerations are: Average life expectancy, Engel
coefficient, living quality index, water qualification rate,
life informatization degree, etc.
C. Promote social development in Eco-culture
D. Establish
environment
scientific
management
in
ecological
Ecological environment is the lifeline of sustainable
development of Hainan Civilized eco-villages in both
natural and civil aspects. Major considerations are: rural
satisfaction of making government affairs public, rural
satisfaction of social security, farmland variation in
common use, ecological forest coverage, total forest
coverage, average water usage in ten thousand
agricultural GDP.
III. SYSTEM FORMULATION ON SUSTAINABILITY
A. Evaluation model of Hainan Civilized eco-villages
sustainability
Two key points of the model, as is shown in Fig. 1,
are: the build-up of evaluation index system, and the
choice
of
evaluation
methods.
Multiple-index
Comprehensive Evaluating Method is a way of converting
indicators with different dimensions which describe
different aspects into dimensionless relative values, and
combining those values into one overall evaluation[11].
Quantification: Indicators can be divided into two
categories, quantitative indicators and qualitative
indicators by property.
Dimensionless disposal: This is also known as
standardization or normalization, methods to eliminate
dimensional effects via mathematical transformation.
Suppose we have a linear relationship in dimensionless
disposal, changes in actual value will cause proportional
changes in standardized value. The formula is:
Zi = ( Xi – X )／S
(1)
Here Xi is the actual value, X is the standardized
value and S is the standard deviation.
Establish index system of
sustainability evaluation
Gather data
for evaluation
S/=（Y1/， Y2/， …YN/）, S/ is the actual value of
indicator ，YN/ is indicator
S=（Y1， Y2，…YN）, S is the target value of indicator
⊿=S-S/=（Y1-Y1/，Y2-Y2/，…YM-YM/）, ⊿1= Y1-Y1/ , ⊿
2=
Y2-Y2/, ⊿M= YM-YM/
⊿=（⊿1，⊿2，…⊿M）, qualified if⊿I =0, unqualified
if⊿I﹥0
Data analysis
and processing
Get evaluation
results
Determine evaluation
methods
Expert investigation
Objective
method
P
C
C
A
A
Sustainability
realization and
development
levels
Subjective
method
F
u
z
z
y
Comparative analysis
Weight
determination
Establish target value
of sustainability
indicators
Fig. 1 Evaluation model of civilized eco-villages sustainability
Adjusting the formula
according to
the
characteristics, and we get the standardization formula of
reverse indicators. Some indicators are qualitatively
described based on subjective judgment, which cannot be
denoted by numbers but levels instead, so they should be
classified into specific levels according to subjective
judgment, after which scores can be acquired and
standardized[8][10].。
B. Evaluation model of Hainan Civilized eco-villages
sustainability
Two key points of the model, as is shown in Fig. 1,
are: the build-up of evaluation index system, and the
choice
of
evaluation
methods.
Multiple-index
Comprehensive Evaluating Method is a way of converting
indicators with different dimensions which describe
different aspects into dimensionless relative values, and
combining those values into one overall evaluation.
Index combination: an overall evaluation by
combining different indicators in Multiple-index
Comprehensive Evaluation. Linear Weighted Sum is a
common combining technique in comparative analysis,
and this paper is no exception[9].
Weight determination: weight determination
methods are developed according to purpose and number
of index. In the evaluation of civilized eco-villages’
construction, we choose contrastive Analysis to determine
weights, regarding the multi-hierarchical characteristics of
index system.
C. Target evaluation index system of Hainan civilized
eco-villages sustainability
TABLE I
D. Evaluation of Hainan civilized
sustainability-year 2009
TABLE II
Evaluation result of Hainan civilized eco-villages sustainability
Core
develop
ment
In
de
x
Name of indicator
Develop
productio
n and
ecoeconomy
2, Create
prospero
us life
with
green
well-off
3,
Promote
social
develop
ment in
ecoculture
4,
Establish
scientific
managem
ent in
ecoenvironm
ent
In
de
x
Name of indicator
Uni
t
Target
value for
2018
W
eig
ht
1
Net income per
peasant
1
Net income per peasant
￥
10000
7
2
Proportion of primary
industry
%
35
3
3
Proportion of rural ecotourism economy
%
35
4
4
Cyclic economy, and
popularity of methane
10000
homes
52.7
6
5
Pollution-free fruits
%
90
6
6
Rural cooperative
medical service coverage
%
100
4
7
Rural endowment
insurance coverage
%
8
Agricultural technician in
ten thousand people
Per
son
4.
9
Gini coefficient of rural
population
-
0.3-0.4
10
Popularizing rate of
ecological education in
small or medium-sized
kindergartens
%
11
Average education year
of rural population
year
12
Rural culture and
entertainment spending
proportion
%
7
3
13
Average life expectancy
year
75
4
14
Engel coefficient
%
40
4
15
Living quality index
%
75
4
16
Water qualification rate
%
90
5
60
99
9
1,
Develo
p
product
ion and
ecoeconom
y
2
3
4
Lev
el(
%)
￥
4570
45.7
10000
7
Proportion of primary
industry
%
53.2
65.7
35
3
Proportion of rural
eco- tourism
economy
%
0
0
35
4
h
o
m
e
s
27.4
51.9
52.7
6
4
17
Life informatization rate
%
60
3
18
Rural satisfaction of govaffairs publicity
%
85
4
19
Rural satisfaction of
social security
%
20
Farmland variation
21
Eco-forest coverage
22
23
85
4
%
0
4
%
26
4
Forest coverage
%
23
4
Water usage in 10,000
agricultural GDP
ster
e
<=1500
4
3,
Promot
e social
develop
ment in
ecoculture
1
0
k
Cyclic economy, and
popularity of
methane
5
Pollution-free fruits
%
53.02
58.9
90
6
6
Rural cooperative
medical service
coverage
%
97.1
97.1
100
4
7
Rural endowment
insurance coverage
%
20.3
33.8
60
4
8
Agricultural
technician in ten
thousand people
p
2.3
57.5
4.
4
9
Gini coefficient of
rural population
-
0.34
100
0.3-0.4
4
10
Popularizing rate of
ecological education
in small or mediumsized kindergartens
%
91.1
92
99
5
11
Average education
year of rural
population
y
7.7
85.5
9
4
12
Rural culture and
entertainment
spending proportion
%
6.4
91.4
7
3
13
Average life
expectancy
y
71.6
95.4
75
4
14
Engel coefficient
%
53.1
75.3
40
4
15
Living quality index
%
62.5
83.3
75
4
16
Water qualification
rate
%
62
77.5
90
5
17
Life informatization
rate
%
97.3
100
60
3
4
5
2009
W
e
i
g
h
t
4
4
2,
Create
prosper
ous life
with
green
well-off
U
n
i
t
Target
value
for
2018
Actu
al
value
Target evaluation index system of Hainan civilized eco-villages’
sustainability
Core
develop
ment
eco-villages
4,
Establis
h
scientifi
c
manage
ment in
ecoenviron
ment
18
Rural satisfaction of
gov-affairs publicity
%
75
88.2
85
19
Rural satisfaction of
social security
%
62
72.9
85
20
Farmland variation
%
0
100
0
21
Eco-forest coverage
%
25.76
100
26
22
Forest coverage
%
52
44.2
23
23
Water usage in
10,000 agricultural
GDP
s
t
e
r
e
784
100
<=1500
(4) Speed up ecological environment and renewable
energy source construction, and promoting rural
sustainable development. Emphasize household garbage
4
collection and safety disposal, and improve economic,
4social and ecological benefits simultaneously by
4promoting recycling economy.
4
(5) Promote eco-culture construction. Reinforce
protection measures on ancient villages, buildings and
4other intangible cultural heritages by bringing up a batch
of influential cultural villages. Peasants should be guided
to respect sciences and transform improper traditions by
training and publicity, finally improving the literal and
moral quality levels.。
4
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Fig. 2. Sustainability level of Hainan civilized eco-villages in 2009(%)
IV. ADVICE
(1) Economic growth is the primary motivation of
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rural ecological economy, to ensure the sustainable
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