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This paper, from the city integration perspective, analyzes the main beneficiaries who benefit from the household registration system reform, and studies the influence of individual decisions about the transfer from agriculture to non-agriculture. Based on it, this paper makes an empirical research by using the survey data about migrant workers in Chongqing. The research findings are as follows: (i) The urban em- ployment, the living condition and the rural connection have a significant impact on migrant workers' transfer decision ; (i) If the value of those factors (such as the working stability, the family income, the urban house condition and the urban social security) is higher, then the migrant workers who have no economic interest in rural areas are better able to integrate into the urban areas, therefore the inclination to trans- fer the household registration from agriculture to non-agriculture will be much stronger. It is proposed that we should do some significant things, such as enhancing the investment of security housing, bringing the migrant workers into the city housing accumulation fund system and giving them prior allocation right, perfecting land elastic exit mechanism, creating a harmonious employment environment, which are important strategies promoting migrant workers to integrate into the urban areas and afecting their individual decision about transferring from agriculture to nonagriculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy. On the one hand, there is increasing demand for fresh and safe refrigerated agricultural products; on the other hand, the current cold chain logistics is relatively underdeveloped and has many problems. This paper does a research on the major large-scale agricultural cold-chain logistics companies in Chongqing, and finds that cold-chain logistics in Chongqing has some problems such as incomplete industrial chain, relatively backward infrastructure, lack of talents, and high logistics costs. Some solutions to these problems are put forward; improving chain logistics infrastructure; strengthening personnel training; building information platform to create a new model of the cold-chain logistics in the Internet era; seeking government's policy and financial support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking 20 relative poor families in Hechuan District of Chongqing Municipality as survey samples, taking 275 households of rural famiiies selected by stratified sampling method as research objects, and taking family education investment behavior of this rural area a research content, this paper studied current situations of rural family education investment behavior in Hechuan District, difference in investment behavior and related influence factors. It is intended to provide references for family education investment of rural areas in Hechuan District and even Chongqing Municipality, and promote development of rural education undertaking in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a survey of 939 farmers in Sichuan and Chongqing, this paper analyzes the influencing factors of entrepreneurial farmers' formal financial credit demands and credit constraints with Probit model. It is found that entrepreneurial farmers have strong demand for formal financial credit, which is mainly production investment demand, but the formal financial credit constraint is obvious. Family size, cognition of loan procedures and conditions have a positive effect on entrepreneurial farmers' formal financial demand, while family per capita income, the distance between family location and the nearest formal financial organization, have negative influence. The relationship between householder' age and entrepreneurial farmers' successful formal loan presents inverted U shape, and educational level presents a negative correlation with successful loan. Compared with the traditional scale agricultural business, farmers engaged in other entrepreneurial businesses would get loan from formal financial institutions more difficultly. Understanding level of the loan procedures and conditions has a positive effect on successful loan. Compared with entrepreneurial farmers without employment, employed farmers are more likely to get loans. Statistically, householder' age and educational level, entrepreneurial business choices do not have significant effect on entrepreneurial households' formal financial credit demands. Family size, family per capital income, the distance between family location and the nearest formal financial organization, and the size of loan do not have significant influence on entrepreneurial households' successful loan. To get rid of formal financial credit constraints, we must implement the incremental reform of financial institutions, promote the formal finance of the villages and towns which can adapt to the farmers' financial demand, and create a good financial environment. Meanwhile, it is necessary to give impetus to innovation of financial management, products and services, reduce credit threshold, and adapt to the characteristics and demands of entrepreneurial households. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the subsidizing agricultural machine purchase was launched in 2004, the agriculture equipment industry in Chongqing has progressed by leaps and bounds, but it is still faced with a few urgent problems, which requires the coordination of stakeholders, with an aim to establish a clear direction of the development of industry and a technolog route. With planting industry as an example, this paper applies the principle and method of industry technolog roadmap to analyse the market demand, industry target, technolog barrier and R&D demand of agricultural equipment industry in Chongqing. Based on the results, the top technolog R&D items of agricultural equipment industry in Chongqing are obtained. Finally, the following sugestions are put forward: integrating resources, constructing platform ad improving innovation ability; constructing agricultural industry park and promotng clustered development of agicultural equipment industry; strengthening finance and taxation support; strengthening constructon of agicultural mechanization infrastructure; substantially developing socialized service of agricultural machinery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the perspective of the influence on credit for farmers, this paper takes the temporarily poor farmers in Rongchang County of Chongqing Municipality as the respondents, and employs the expert survey method and on-site analysis to analyze the reasons and put forward three hypotheses. Using the AHP model, we carry out the empirical analysis of three major hypotheses concerning the credit for farmers. The study demonstrates that the state's unclear definition of property rights of farmers and farmers' lack of collateral are the primary factor influencing the credit for farmers, followed by insufficient targeted financial and technical support for the farmers who are engaged in the agricultural sector affected by the nature; farmers do not really get the assistance for them to use the natural resources to develop the rural economy, so that the banks complicate the loan procedures and increase the requirements of loans for farmers in order to ensure the capital liquidity and safety, thus further deepening the plight of credit for farmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The circular agriculture is conducive to achieving the purpose of efficient agricultural economy and environment - friendliness. Based on the perspective of circular agriculture theory, this paper builds the evaluation indicator system for circular agriculture, and uses entropy method and Matlab analysis tool to carry out the comprehensive evaluation of the level of agricultural development in Chongqing City during the period 2003 - 2012. It analyzes the obstacles to the development of circular agricultural economy in Chongqing City in 2012, and finally puts forward the corresponding recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we use DEA – Tobit model to conduct empirical study on the governmental supply efficiency of public service in Chongqing's 38 counties and the influencing factors during the period 2008 - 2011. The results show that the supply efficiency of basic public service at county level is generally low, and there is significant regional differences and strong volatility; per capita GDP, population density and population size, and level of education of the residents, are significantly correlated with the supply efficiency of basic public service at county level, but traffic density, urbanization level, and the proportion of government spending on public service to total fiscal expenditure, have no significant effects on the efficiency of basic public service at county level. Based on this, we propose some policy recommendations for enhancing the level of local economic development and the level of education, and reasonably guiding the residents' agglomeration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]