ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL DISPARITIES OF RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LEVEL IN CHINA
基于2007年中国31个省份数据，用主成分分析和聚类分析揭示农村经济发展水平的区域差异，表现为东中西地带差异、南北差异及省际差异，并提出缩小差距的思路。
This study based on 31 provinces,municipalities and autonomous regions in mainland China.We selected 18 appraisal indices that could represent rural economic development level,and applied the principal component analysis based on SPSS13.0 for windows to analysis rural economic development level in China in 2007.Through the hierarchical cluster analysis,the result indicate that rural economic development level in China has obvious regional disparities in the main performance as follows: Among three zones the disparities appeared East and West,within each zone the disparities appeared North and South,on 31 provincial regions the disparities appeared national regions and municipalities districts.After analysis the reasons put forward a basic idea to shrink the regional disparities in the rural economy.