Rural Industry Research Articles

Does digital inclusive finance promote the integration of rural industries? Based on the mediating role of financial availability and agricultural digitization.

The integration of rural industries will inevitably lead to new business forms and new models, which put forward new requirements for traditional agricultural finance. The development of digital inclusive finance will provide new momentum for the integration of rural industries. Based on the provincial panel data from 2011 to 2020, the evaluation index system is constructed from three dimensions: industrial integration method, integration subject and integration format, and the development index of rural industrial integration is calculated. This paper establishes double fixed effect model and intermediary effect model to test the effect and path of digital inclusive finance on the integration of rural industries, and further explores the regulatory role and spatial difference of financial support. The results show that: (1) The integration of rural industries shows a growing trend, the eastern region develops more rapidly, while the central and western regions develop more slowly; (2) The digital inclusive finance can promote the integration of rural industries, digitization degree is remarkable, but coverage breadth and using depth are not significant, increasing the rate of per capita electricity consumption and urbanization can promote the integration of rural industries, consumption has limited pulling effect on the integration of rural industries, the per capita investment in fixed assets has no significant effects on the integration of rural industries; (3) The financial availability and the agricultural digitization play a complete intermediary effect; (4) Financial support has a negative moderating effect on the relationship between the two; (5) The eastern and central regions have a significant promoting effect, while the western region has a negative effect.

The psychological and emotional relief effect of tourism on residents with autism

BackgroundIn the context of rural revitalization, the tourism industry, as an important economic growth point, has been widely concerned. At the same time, as a special group, autistic residents are facing the challenges of psychological and emotional distress and social integration. Therefore, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to explore the development path of the rural tourism industry to alleviate the psychological emotions of autistic residents.Subjects and MethodsThe rural tourism industry provides opportunities for autistic residents to work and social integration. In the tourism service industry, autistic residents can play the role of tour guide, receptionist or handicraft producer. Through the accumulation of work experience, they can improve their self-confidence and social skills, and increase their sense of identity in society, which can help to improve their emotional state and self-feeling.ResultsThrough the analysis of the psychological and emotional relief effect of autistic patients, it is found that the development path of the tourism industry under the background of rural revitalization has an emotional regulation effect on 80.65% of autistic patients. About 22.65% of people with autism showed significant improvement.ConclusionsThe rural tourism industry is characterized by diversity and interaction, which provides rich experience and participation opportunities. By participating in tourism activities, autistic residents can get the opportunity for physical and mental relaxation, emotional pleasure, and social interaction. Elements such as natural environment, cultural landscape and animal proximity in tourism activities provide autistic residents with sensory stimulation and emotional connection and help to improve their emotional state and self-feeling.AcknowledgementResearch on the Development Strategy of Tourism Advertising Media from the Perspective of Rural Revitalization, (No. GHKJ2021-02-103); Study on the reform strategies and path of supplying side of Guangxi tourism industry under the background of global tourism, (No. 2018KY0647).

Rural revitalization strategy and collaborative development of tourism on residents’ psychological anxiety

BackgroundDue to reasons such as low education and limited job options, rural residents face significant life pressure. Some residents often feel anxious about their work and life, and have significant psychological anxiety. With the horn of the rural revitalization strategy being sounded, the rural economy has begun to develop, and the rural tourism industry has seen a new turn, providing new sources of economic income for residents. In this regard, the study focuses on residents and analyzes the impact of rural revitalization strategy and coordinated development of tourism on residents’ psychological anxiety.Subjects and MethodsThe study selected 100 residents with psychological anxiety and randomly divided them into two groups, with 50 in both the control group and the observation group. The former adopts a rural revitalization strategy, while the latter develops the tourism industry based on the former, lasting for 6 months. Using the Self Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) to measure the level of psychological anxiety among residents, the data was processed using SPSS23.0 software.ResultsAfter the experiment, the psychological anxiety symptoms of the two groups of residents were improved through testing. In the SAS score, the observation group’s score was significantly lower than that of the control group (P<0.05).ConclusionsThrough the coordinated development of rural revitalization strategy and tourism industry, while generating income for residents, it alleviates their economic pressure, improves their quality of life, and relieves their psychological anxiety.

The Human Tide

Abstract This article investigates how cultural workers from the 1950s to the 1970s served China’s hydraulic engineering campaign in artworks depicting human resource extraction. Focusing on Tian Han’s drama The Caprice of the Ming Tombs Reservoir (1958) and Jiang Yunchuan’s documentary Red Flag Canal (1970), the article tells two tales of Chinese hydraulic construction to analyze the theatrical and cinematic aesthetics of socialist labor reform and rural industrialization. In China’s history of transforming water from a natural threat to a natural resource, Tian Han and Jiang Yunchuan represent the Chinese cultural workers who used their works to mobilize the masses to navigate the hostile natural environment and overcome technological insufficiency, portraying the body as corporeal machine. This mode of cultural representation went beyond revolutionary culture’s conventional task of reinforcing class consciousness. Instead, it aimed to generate and maintain the energy of the infrastructure builders to change the nature of labor in socialist industrial planning. The Chinese cultural works on hydraulic engineering draw attention to the materiality of the laboring bodies often ignored in current infrastructure scholarship.

Re-orientating agricultural research to address complex challenges: Legitimacy dynamics of a hybrid research organisation

Agricultural research organisations play a critical role in the agri-food system; not only through the provision of research and technologies, but also by brokering relationships with stakeholders throughout the research process to create impact. Yet over the past decade, as the focus has shifted towards such multi-actor innovation processes, the role and legitimacy of the agricultural research organisations world-wide has been challenged. Occupying an intermediary position in agricultural innovation systems means that agricultural research institute legitimacy is constantly under pressure from the rural community, academics, policy makers, industry, and general society as the institute attempts to be all things to all people. Here we present the outcomes of an organisational change programme within an applied agricultural research organisation, in response to a government-led agenda to increase impact for research users. By using institutional theory of hybrid organisation legitimacy, we shed light on the multiple institutional logics that co-exist within an agricultural research institute, and how these align with the external institutional environment. We show that with the introduction of a new multi-actor innovation logic, attempts were made to legitimise, externally and internally, knowledge co-production. Yet agricultural research organisations, and those who work within them, need dedicated time for learning and reflecting on the values, beliefs, and practices of the different actors in the innovation system, otherwise they only selectively adopt practices that maintain existing institutional logics. The main theoretical implications show how that change towards an impact culture is influenced by the existing logics, and how organisational legitimacy provides a framing for understanding the success (or otherwise) of introducing new modes of innovation in hybrid research organisations. Practically, space and resourcing are needed to experiment with new logics and deliberate strategies are required to increase the repertoire of research roles while maintaining internal and external legitimacy. The practical implications demonstrate the barriers and opportunities of re-orientating hybrid agricultural research institutes, agricultural innovation systems, and the roles of the researchers that work in them, to deliver to the complex societal challenges facing the agri-food sector.

Research on Fiscal and Tax Policies of Tourism \\Ecosystem to Promote Rural Revitalization

The "Strategic Plan for Rural Revitalization (2018-2022)" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council proposes to build an ecologically livable and beautiful countryside. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee proposed to give priority to the development of rural agriculture and comprehensively promote rural revitalization. A sound rural tourism ecosystem is of great significance for optimizing the structure of rural tourism, driving the development of other rural industries, increasing farmers' income, and revitalizing the countryside. The establishment of a rural tourism ecosystem will address the contradiction of uneven and insufficient development in rural areas, while promoting high-quality development of rural tourism, achieving consumption upgrading, and promoting internal circulation. Establish a comprehensive fiscal and tax policy, and accelerate the construction of the rural tourism ecosystem with the policy support of financial policy, tax policy, and investment and financing policy.

Driving rural industry revitalization in the digital economy era: Exploring strategies and pathways in China.

In the context of the digital economy, achieving rural industrial revitalization in China hinges on digitization. This study delves into the synergistic mechanisms of diverse factors that contribute to Rural Industrial Revitalization across three dimensions: technology, organization, and environment. To investigate these mechanisms, a combination of the necessary condition analysis method and the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method is employed. The research findings indicate that no necessary conditions exist for achieving high-level rural industrial revitalization. However, digital infrastructure and the digital financial environment have a universally significant impact. The study identifies four distinct pathways driving high-level rural industrial revitalization: digitaldriven, digital-government-talentdriven, digital-enterprisedriven, and digital-enterprise-talentdriven. Furthermore, significant variations exist in the driving pathways for rural industrial revitalization among the eastern, central, and western regions of China. By unveiling the multifaceted mechanisms underpinning the revitalization of rural industries, this research provides valuable practical insights for the future development of rural industries in China.

A Comparative Analysis of the Interaction between Urban-Rural Construction Land Transition and Population Flow: Dominant and Recessive Perspectives

Population flow caused by rapid urbanization has driven the urban-rural construction land transition. A systematic recognition of their interaction is essential for achieving coordinated and sustainable urban-rural development. We chose Hangzhou, one of the most urbanized cities in China, as the study area to analyze this interaction from the perspectives of dominant morphology and recessive morphology during the period of 2010 to 2020. From the perspective of dominant morphology, a structured analysis method is applied to assess the variation in the internal components. A dynamic land utilization efficiency index is proposed and combined with an original static land utilization efficiency index to comprehensively portray a complete periodicity of urban-rural construction land transition and population flow from the perspective of recessive morphology. Results demonstrate that the path dependence of rural industrialization leads to a seemingly stagnant urban-rural construction land transition in Hangzhou. Meanwhile, the rapid increase in the demographic urbanization rate has been supported by the massive inflow of external migrants. Based on the more stringent dynamic land utilization efficiency index and the more comprehensive combination of static and dynamic indices, the moderate expansion of urban construction land increases the proportion of township-level units of the intensive land utilization pattern while, instead of population loss, the general non-intensive land utilization pattern in rural areas has been driven by the overexpansion of rural residential land.

Can the Integration of Rural Industries Help Strengthen China’s Agricultural Economic Resilience?

Rural industrial integration is the key to promoting the development of rural industrial restructuring and modernization, and plays a vital role in improving agricultural economic resilience. Based on the evaluation index system of agricultural economic resilience and the level of rural industrial integration development, respectively, this paper uses panel data from 30 provincial administrative regions in China from 2000 to 2020 to empirically test the impact of rural industrial integration development on agricultural economic resilience by using an individual fixed-effects model and a mediating-effects model. The results show that rural industrial integration significantly contributes to enhancing agricultural economic resilience, and the conclusion still holds after a series of robustness tests. There is dimensional and regional heterogeneity in the impact of rural industrial integration on agricultural economic resilience, and the strength of the promotion effect by dimension is in the order of adaptive adjustment capacity, transformation and innovation capacity, and resilience to recovery capacity. In the eastern and central regions, the promotion effect of rural industrial integration on agricultural economic resilience is more significant. In the main food-producing areas, the promotion effect of rural industrial integration on resilience to recovery is significantly slighter than that of non-food-producing regions. Mechanism analysis indicates that regional industrial structure optimization is an essential channel for rural industrial integration to enhance the resilience of the agricultural economy. On this basis, in order to strengthen agricultural economic resilience, provinces should actively explore differentiated industrial integration policies to enhance industrial structure optimization and upgrading, stimulate agricultural economic vitality, and foster the development of China’s agricultural modernization.

Research on the formation mechanism of rural tourism performance differences

As the main measure of the development level of rural tourism industry, the exploration of the factors influencing rural tourism performance has become the focus of academic attention. To this end, the qualitative comparative analysis method of multivariate combinations is used to explore the grouping paths affecting rural tourism performance with the natural material conditions of rural tourism sites, villagers' self-organisation, rural tourism demonstration grades, informal and formal systems as conditional variables, and the annual total income of rural tourism sites as outcome variables. The results show that (1) of the 32 combinations of conditions present in the five antecedent variables, there are a total of four conditional paths consistent with a high performance outcome. (2) The consistency of the antecedent condition group states is greater than the theoretical threshold of 0.8, and the four sufficient condition paths for high performance rural tourism operations, with an overall coverage of 0.668, are able to explain 66.8% of the condition combinations of high performance rural tourism, which has considerable explanatory power. (3) Among the various conditional paths, informal system and formal system are the single elements with the highest frequency of occurrence among the different elements, and the other conditional elements need to merge the two and co-exist regardless of the path. Therefore, informal and formal institutions are significant for enhancing rural tourism performance.

Subversive Innovation in the Cultural Tourism Communication Path in the Metaverse Perspective -The Example of the Temple Grand Magic Cube

The phrase "Metaverse" has recently become a well-known one, appearing in customers' brains more and more frequently. As a consequence of the integration of cutting-edge digital technology, Metaverse is applied to various operation scenarios of the entire civilization in order to accomplish high-quality digital economy development, which will definitely open up a new area of the human digital world. This article evaluates the Metaverse's breakthrough into to the traditional rural tourism industry, and introduces a new cultural path "play" based on the Metaverse perspective ---Temple Grand Magic Cube, an experience scene of cultural tourism business integration, rural revitalization, and Metaverse depth combination, and rationalization of resource allocation in urban and rural areas. It examines the feasibility and workability of integrating cultural tourism with "Metaverse" virtual reality, and makes policy recommendations.

Revitalizing Rural China: Research on The Development Status and Communication Strategy of Geographical Indication Brands with A Case Study of Jingyang Fu Tea

Geographical indications of agricultural products are legal signs used to identify distinctive agricultural products from specific regions, with the product’s name being linked to its geographical origins. Since 2008, China has been managing the geographical indications of agricultural products, turning ordinary crops such as fruits and vegetables into geographical indication brands. This management approach not only promotes rural economic development but also accelerates rural industry development. This research aims to analyze factors that limit agricultural product development and present a communication strategy using the case of Jingyang Fu Tea to explore how to promote the long-term development of the tea industry in the specific context of China’s rural revitalization.

Determinants of rural creative microclustering: Evidence from web‐scraped data for England

AbstractThis study aims to compare the drivers of clustering of rural and urban creative industries in England. We use pre‐pandemic web‐scraped data from 154,618 creative industry organizations in England, and use a novel technique to identify 71 distinct rural creative “microclusters” of geographically proximate creative firms. We then consider the role of place‐based assets and agglomeration in the presence of microclusters at a micro‐level geography and find that the determinants of microclustering are generally consistent between rural and urban areas. On that basis we argue that policies to support creative clusters may drive rural regional development.

Rural health and rural industries: Opportunities for partnership and action.

Rural health and rural industries: Opportunities for partnership and action.

Building a Rural Industrial Green Ecosystem based on Geographical Indications

At the intersection of the transition from rapid economic growth to high-quality development and the comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization, geographical indication trademarks can facilitate further integration of agricultural industries. This not only achieves the goal of high-quality development of the rural economy but also satisfies the requirements of a green and ecological economy. This article, based on the application of geographical indication trademarks, constructs a green ecological system for rural industries. However, there are still prominent issues in the countryside: the system and mechanism are not smooth; there is insufficient trademark awareness in county organizations; the degree of rural infrastructure construction is low; and the development quality of new agricultural business entities needs to be improved. We should: promote the simplification of geographical indication applications; enhance rural infrastructure construction; boost the awareness of patents and trademarks among rural enterprises; and improve the development quality of agricultural business entities to build a green ecological system for rural industries based on geographical indications.

A Review on the Research of Digital Technology Empowering the Integration and Development of Rural Industries

The innovation and application of digital technology to promote the integration of rural industries and better comprehensively improve the efficiency of rural industrial development has important practical significance. Therefore, this article conducts research on existing literature related to the empowerment of digital technology in the integration and development of rural industries, specifically from four aspects: the theoretical mechanism of digital technology empowering the integration and development of rural industries, research on digital technology and its measurement methods, research on issues related to the integration and development of rural industries, research on the efficiency of rural industry development, and research on digital technology empowering the integration and development of rural industries, And summarize and analyze the main shortcomings of existing literature research, and finally, focus on Anhui Province as an example to propose future research prospects.

Research on the Strategy of Rural Revitalization Empowered by Art Design

The rural revitalization strategy is a national strategy put forward by the General Secretary in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Party, in which cultural revitalization plays an important role as an important spiritual driving force for rural revitalization. In recent years, with the deepening of the "rural revitalization" strategy and the rapid development of rural cultural tourism industry, art and design have gradually been involved in the revitalization of beautiful villages. Taking art and design strategy as the starting point, rural culture, rural skills, rural industries and rural resources have been closely combined with design to promote art and design strategy to help rural revitalization, which is also a beneficial exploration to practice the new development concept. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to provide guidance and guidance for rural revitalization empowered by art design.

Социально-экономическое развитие Аргентины в первой половине XIX в.

This article examines formation of socioeconomic structure of Argenti-na after the War of independence. The author focuses on the main fea-tures of a new social order: land boom, estancia expansion, ranching export, expansion of foreign capital. After the War of Independence, large land ownership, latifundists became dominant in the country. Creole merchants, while maintaining their positions in the export-import trade, began to create large estancias. The high profitability of cattle breeding, in comparison with agriculture, led to the transfor-mation of cattle breeding into the main sphere of capital application. Along with the oligarchy, foreign capital became the most important component of the emerging structure. English capital appeared in Ar-gentina as a trading capital, but began to invest in estancias and saladeros – cattle processing enterprises. Argentine industry – manufactories and craft workshops in Buenos Aires and rural industry in the interior provinces – could not compete with foreign goods. Argentina has become an economic colony: the export of cattle products in exchange for the import of manufactured goods.

The Current Situation, Problems and Countermeasures of Agricultural Investment in Anhui Province

Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy and people's livelihood, and also a potential economic growth point. Agriculture is a basic industry, and its production involves the Secondary sector of the economy and Tertiary sector of the economy, which plays a very strong role in driving the economy. The report of the 20th National People's Congress of the CPC points out that we need to build a socialist modern country in an all-round way, and the most arduous and arduous task is still in the countryside. Adhere to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, adhere to the integration of urban and rural development, and facilitate the flow of urban and rural factors. Accelerate the construction of an agricultural power and solidly promote the revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology, and organizations. Anhui is located in the north and south species gathering area, and its ecological environment and agricultural resources are very rich, which provides a good material basis for the development of Anhui agriculture. However, there are still some significant issues with agricultural investment in Anhui, such as the reduction of agricultural assets and the low efficiency of agricultural investment, which to some extent limit the sustainable and healthy development of agriculture in Anhui. Therefore, this article mainly analyzes the environment, current situation, problems and obstacles of agricultural investment in Anhui, and proposes corresponding suggestions based on current policies to promote the development of agriculture in Anhui.

Spatial expansion of avocado in Mexico: Could the energy use of pruning residues offset orchard GHG emissions?

Avocado orchards (Persea americana) in Mexico are constantly being expanded to meet the increasing demand for the fruit in the national and international markets. The land-use change (LUC) caused by this expansion has numerous negative impacts, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to the loss of forest cover and the burning of pruning residues. To generate a comprehensive evaluation of this complex environmental issue, we calculate emissions from LUC and from residue burning between 1974 and 2017 at a local scale (1:20,000), and the energy potential of pruning residues was estimated as an alternative to revalue a waste product and mitigate the negative impacts of avocado cultivation. Our results show that land-use conversions emitted 390.5 GgCO2, of which 91% came from conversions to avocado orchards. Emissions of GHG from biomass burning amounted to an additional 20.68 GgCO2e released per year. Given that around 12,600 tons of dry avocado pruning residues are generated annually in the study region, their use for energy generation could replace 240 TJ/year of fossil fuels in rural industries and could mitigate around 31 GgCO2e per year. This study provides decision-makers with a concrete example of how to establish multiple-impact strategies at local scales.