STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL EFFICIENCY EVALUATION OF RURAL INFORMATIZATION IN CHINA AND ITS INFLUENCE FACTOR ANALYSIS.

Rural informatization is an inevitable requirement of agricultural development. In the paper a two-phase model with DEA-Tobit was adopted to analyze the developmental efficiency and the influencing factors of rural informatization in China during 2007-2010. The results showed that, on the whole, the overall developmental efficiency of rural informatization in the Middle and Northwest China was lower than that in other regions of China. In addition, the decisive influencing factors on developmental efficiency of rural informatization were resulted from the nation's macro policy and the global construction of rural informatization projects. The level difference in regional economic development was the main reason for the variation in developmental efficiency. Moreover, the structure and level of consumption by rural residents was an important source that had affected the developmental efficiency. Furthermore, the age of rural population and the education level had a significant influence on the developmental efficiency of rural informatization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]