Empirical research on evaluation of developmental levels for Chinese rural services industry

Abstract

The evaluation index system of rural services is structured as four dimensions: the scale of development, the speed of development, the structure of development and the environment of development. The developmental level of Chinese rural services relating 30 provinces has been evaluated based on principal component analysis method (PCA). The results of evaluation research indicated that the developmental level of rural services among these 30 provinces exhibited obvious and tremendous differences, especially regional differences. The eastern region ranked foremost, followed the middle region, the northeast region and the western region respectively, which is generally correspond to the horizontal gradient pattern of these four economical regions. The average developmental levels of the middle, the northeast and the western regions showed below that of the national level, and the northeast region exhibited unique pattern.