THE DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCE OF RURAL INFORMATIONIZATION IN CHINA
研究中国农村信息化的发展过程，从信息基础设施、农村网民、农业网站等角度分析区域差异，发现电话、电视、手机普及率的区域差异不明显，但家庭电脑普及率差异显著，农村网民集中在东部且增长快于中西部。
Rural information communication technologies(ICTs) development has been the focus of study in our present,especially the internet which as a representative of rural informationalization aroused people's attention.It brings the rural economic development and social progress of service.However the social inequality of ICTs' diffusion became one of the obstacles of regional informationalization.The inequality is embodied not only between urban and rural areas,but also in the interior of rural areas.This paper analyzes the developing process of rural informationalization,sums up the regional difference of rural informationalization in China.It based on the informational infrastructure,rural net citizen,agriculture website,and using macro and medium perspective analyses the regional difference of rural informationalization.The researches show that the regional inequality in telephone,television and mobile phone penetration rate is not obvious,and the regional differences in home computer penetration are obvious.Rural net citizens are mainly concentrated in the eastern region,and growing faster than the middle and west,rural net citizens'regional differences will continue to increase.From the provincial level,rural information infrastructure and income is obviously positive correlation,and home computers have the highest correlation with income level.