How to Determine the Land Rent
——A Sociological Study of Formation Mechanism of Land Circulation Price
………………………………………………………………………… Tian Xianhong & Chen Ling （ 2 ）
The basic proposition about land rent in economics is that land rent is a kind of remaining. It means that the land rent is the remaining profits removing the cost of production and common profit of agricultural capital. The main factors which influence the land rent level embrace the natural conditions of land, the capital investment, the supply-demand relationship and the structure of property rights. Different from the economic train of thought, the article analyzes the formation mechanism of land rent based on the perspective of sociology. The article believes that the land rent is an important issue not only in economy but also in society. The formation of land rent is not only influenced by the natural conditions of land, the capital investment, the supply-demand relationship and the structure of property rights, but also embedded in the relationship among the various stakeholders. It suffers from the interaction of many social factors, such as social structure, social rules, administrative intervention, and risk share and so on. The land rent is not only an economic contract reached by the various stakeholders, but also a kind of social contract.
“ Abandoning Rural Land Rights” to “with Rural Land Rights”: the Issue of Peasant Urbanization
………………………………………………………………………………… Li Fei & Du Yunsu （ 13 ）
The Chinese urbanization can't avoid solving the relationship between peasant and land. After the founding of New China, the essence of peasant's urbanization was "abandoning land rights" urbanization. In the period of planned economy, peasants enjoyed the omnibearing welfare in the city if they got urban

hukou. So there is reasonable in "abandoning land rights" urbanization. After the reform and opening up, the state continued to use the mode of "abandoning land rights" urbanization, which caused semi-urbanization. Under the system of market economy, the rational basis of "abandon land rights" urbanization has been lost, and doesn’t meet peasants' practical rationality. Hence, it is necessary to give peasant clear rural land rights in the process of urbanization. The peasants benefit from it by enhancing their ability to resist risks and promoting them to achieve upward social mobility from the perspective of sound social operation.
Effect Evaluation of the Poverty reduction mode of Comprehensive community development on Peasant
Household Income
—— a Case Study on the ADB-funded Nayong Community Anti-poverty Demonstration Project in
Guizhou ……………………………………………………………… Guo Junping & Wu guobao （ 22 ）
Based on the tracking survey data of rural household in three poverty-stricken village of nayong guizhou province in 1999, 2003 and 2011, this paper, with the ADB financed community anti-poverty demonstration project as research object, evaluates the effect of the Poverty reduction mode of
Comprehensive community development on peasant household income by using the first-order difference, fixed effects and matching with double differences model. The results show that the Poverty reduction mode of Comprehensive community development could significantly increase household income and has a sustained effect for a long time. However, its degree, direction and significance of influence on income from planting, breeding, wages, business activities and other aspects are different in different periods. Among them, its affect on wages is the largest and the most persistent besides its direction is positive. Totally, the income effect of comprehensive project is more obvious than the incomplete project form.
Key words: Comprehensive Community Development; Community Anti-poverty Demonstration Project;
Peasant Household Income; Effect Evaluation
The Influence of Relocation Policy on Rural Households’ Livelihood Strategy: Based on the Household
Survey data in South Shaanxi Province
…………………………………………………… Li Cong, Liu Wei, Feng Weilin & Li Shuzhuo （ 31 ）
Based on the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework, this paper constructs a framework to analyze the influence of the relocation policy initiating in South Shaanxi Province on rural households’ livelihood strategy in the poor mountain area. Employing the household survey data, the paper examines the effect of the relocation program on rural households’ livelihood strategy. The results reveal that, the relocation policy stimulates the transit of local livelihood from traditional agricultural to non-agricultural activities by significantly decrease rural households’ probability of participating in activities of crop farming as well as livestock production. Meanwhile, the relocation program significantly increases the incomes from livestock production and rural-urban migration activities. Furthermore, although the centralized settlement mode significantly decreases the rural households’ probability of participating in the activities of livestock production as well as its income, it significantly increases their probability of participating in rural-urban migration activities.
Study on Influencing Factors of Farmers Choice Behavior for Water-saving Irrigation Techniques
——Based on Survey Data from Mengyin, Shandong Province
……………………………………………………………………………… Xu Lang & Liu Jinjin （ 45 ）

According to survey data on the farmers in Mengyin, Shandong Province, the paper makes an empirical analysis on influencing factors of the farmer behavior of water-saving irrigation technology choices with binary logistic model. The study shows that the farmer’s awareness level on water-saving irrigation technology, the proportion of agricultural income accounted for household income, household income sources, land acreage and effective irrigation area, the government propaganda for water-saving irrigation techniques, water-saving irrigation policy, investment and tariff cognition are important factors to promote water-saving irrigation techniques selected by the farmers.
An Analysis on Factors Influencing Farmer’ Demand for Agriculture Technology
——Based on Contract Theory
………………………………………………………………………… Song Jintian & Qi Chunjie （ 52 ）
In view of contract theory ， s main citrus production zones to analyze the impact of transaction cost on farmer ’ demands for agricultural technologies by building
Logistic model. The results show that ， transaction costs have significant effects on farmer’ demands for agricultural technologies. The variable reflecting information cost of whether the farmers have communication and information receiving facilities or not, whether they can watch relevant programs of agricultural TV channels or not, and whether they communicate with other farmers frequently or not have significantly positive effects on farmer’ demands for agricultural technologies. The variable reflecting implementation cost of whether farmers participate in technical training, and whether they can solve technical problems in production successfully have significantly positive influences on farmers ’ demands for agricultural technologies. Furthermore ， the age of head of the household has significantly negative effect on farmers’ demands for agricultural technologies; the education degree of head of household and planting area have significantly positive effects on their demands on agricultural technologies.
Discussion on Sustainable Development of New Rural Social Endowment Insurance
——In the Perspective of Peasants’ Pension Purchase Behavior
………………………………………………………………… Zhong Zhangbao & Nie Jianliang （ 60 ）
Using the data of farmers’ questionnaire survey from 6 districts in China, this paper tries to explore the sustainability of the new rural social endowment insurance system in the perspective of peasants’ pension purchase behavior and analyze the factors affecting peasants’ pension purchase behavior through constructing logistic regression model. Overall, as time goes on, the occurrence ratio of peasants’ pension purchase behavior has an increasing trend. Specifically speaking, during the setup phase, peasants not only consider the old-age protection capacity and the net profit of new rural social endowment insurance, but also are affected by outside propaganda and mobilization. Village cadres enhance the strength of propaganda and mobilization can greatly improve the occurrence ratio of peasants' pension purchase behavior. However, as the new rural social endowment runs its course, the peasants’ information of new rural social endowment insurance is becoming more and more and peasants accumulate experience gradually, although the effect of outside propaganda and mobilization is becoming less and less. Then peasants will justify their expectation based on the net profit of new rural social endowment insurance, and the occurrence ratio of peasants’ pension purchase behavior is slowly rising. Therefore, based on the farmers’ rational judgment and considering the characteristics of new rural social endowment insurance, the occurrence ratio of peasants’ pension purchase behavior will maintain steady growth in a high

proportion in a long time, then the new rural social endowment insurance system will achieve sustainable development.
The Economic Burden of Disease and its Influence Factors of Rural Old-aged People ： Based on the 26
Counties Survey of Jiangsu Province
…………………………………………………………………………… Wang Yiqiu & Lv Meiye （ 71 ）
This paper analyses the economic burden of disease and its influence factors of 740 rural old-aged people based on the survey data from 26 counties of Jiangsu province. The research results that the economic burden of disease of rural old-aged people depends on the severity of disease, household income level and whether to participate in medical insurance. It confirms the New Rural Cooperative Medical
System can relieve the economic burden of disease of old-age people, but it finds the negative correlation between the economic burden and household income level. So it suggests that public health policy and the medical reform will focus on the medical equity problem.
The Urban-Rural Relationship: A Foreign Literature Review
………………………………………………………………………………………… Chen Fang （ 80 ）
Rural-urban linkages are important for poverty alleviation and urbanization, and are helpful for the villages to successfully face significant economic and social change and economic transformation. This literature review attempts to describe the concept and connotation of the urban-rural relationship, to sum up the direction of the flows of production factors between urban and rural areas, and to outline the contours of the interactions relationship between the rural and urban sectors and developmental dynamics, and to summarize how to create a benign urban-rural relationship. The paper summarizes three major consensuses of the academic research on the urban-rural relations. First, due to different but complementary functions, the urban-rural relationship is a kind of symbiotic relationship. Second, from the perspective of rural residents, the flow of various factors of production is not limited to the periphery of a city, but more akin to a network, and the network includes a number of villages and towns, then the focus of research on the urban-rural relationship becomes local area network rather than a separate one village or city. Third, the relationship between urban and rural sector has gone beyond the traditional division of labor between urban and rural areas. The interactions among agricultural sectors and the non-agricultural sectors also have a spatial dimension. Finally, some suggestions on optimizing the Chinese urban-rural relations were presented.
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