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Study on the method for evaluation on rural informatisation in China

Liu Shihong

Agricultural Information Institute
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
12 Zhongguancun South Street
100081, Beijing, PR China
lius@mail.caas.net.cn

Abstract    This research established a set of methods suitable for China to assess the informatisation level in rural areas and analysed the status of rural informatisation in different parts of China. The study established a synthetic index method, and the process includes establishment of an indicator system, data collection, data standardisation and indexation. The average level of national rural informatisation was found to be 99.69. The top six areas are municipalities of Shanghai and Beijing, and provinces of Guangdong, Hebei, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. The Informatisation Index of Shanghai is 259.15, which is 160% higher than that of the average level in the whole country and 971% of the level in Tibet. The building of infrastructures for rural informatisation and the application of agricultural information technology (IT) have played an evident role in the process of informatisation construction in rural areas. However, the gap of rural informatisation development between eastern and western China is still wide.

Keywords    analysis and evaluation method; index system; measurement; rural informatisation

A07087; Online publication date 25 January; 2008 Received and accepted 10 August 2007

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 2007, Vol. 50: 749–755
0028–8233/07/5005–0749 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2007

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