Study on the Evolution of Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Regional Differences in the Development of Digital Agriculture in China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Construction of an Indicator System for the Growth in Digital Agriculture and Its Rationale
2.1.1. Selection of Production Intensification Indicators
2.1.2. Selection of Indicators for Operational Networking
2.1.3. Selection of Management Refinement Indicators
2.1.4. Selection of Service Informatization Indicators
2.1.5. Selection of Indicators of the Level of Sustainable Growth
2.1.6. Selection of Digital Information Infrastructure Indicators
2.2. Study Area and Data Sources
2.3. Entropy Method
2.4. Spatial Correlation Test
2.5. Dagum’s Gini Coefficient and Its Decomposition
2.6. Kernel Density Estimate
3. Results
3.1. The Development Level of Digital Agriculture in China
3.2. A Chronological Characterization of the Level of Development of Digital Agriculture in China
3.3. Spatial Characterization of the Level of Development of Digital Agriculture in China
3.3.1. Global Spatial Autocorrelation Test
3.3.2. Local Spatial Autocorrelation Test
3.4. Regional Differences in the Growth in Digital Farming in China and Their Decomposition
3.4.1. Overall Regional Differences and Trends in the Development of Digital Agriculture in China
3.4.2. Intra-Regional Variations in China’s Digital Farming Growth Rate and Their Changing Trends
3.4.3. Inter-Regional Variations in China’s Digital Farming Growth Level and Their Changing Trends
3.4.4. Sources of Regional Differences in China’s Digital Agricultural Growth Level and Their Contributions
3.5. Analysis of the Dynamic Evolution of the Level of Development of Digital Farming in China
3.5.1. Distribution Dynamics of National Digital Farming Development
3.5.2. Distribution Dynamics of Digital Farming Development in the Eastern Region
3.5.3. Distribution Dynamics of Digital Farming Development in the Central Region
3.5.4. Distribution Dynamics of Digital Farming Development in the Western Region
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Dimension | Indicator | Indicator Metrics | Property |
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Production intensification | Effective irrigated area | Effective irrigated area (thousand hectares) | + |
Food productivity | Total food production/number of people employed in the primary sector (tonnes/person) | + | |
Agricultural land productivity | Gross agricultural output/area sown to crops (yuan/ha) | + | |
Mechanization level | The entire farm equipment power (10,000 kW) | + | |
Footprint of facility agriculture | Total area of facility-based farming/total cultivated area (%) | + | |
Agricultural labor productivity | Primary industries value added/number of workers in primary industries (yuan/person) | + | |
Operational Networking | Level of precision processing of agricultural products | Business income from agro-processing industry/gross agricultural output (%) | + |
Level of agricultural network payments | Digital Financial Inclusion Index (-) | + | |
Digital transactions in agriculture | E-commerce sales + purchases (billion yuan) | + | |
Informatization level of agricultural products | The volume of postal and telecommunication business (billion yuan) | + | |
Management refinement | Level of logistics and transport | Freight transport by road (10,000 tonnes) | + |
Level of traceability of agricultural product quality and safety | Number of professional farmers’ cooperatives per 10,000 people in the countryside (number) | + | |
Level of application of information technology in agriculture | Share of administrative villages with postal service (%) | + | |
Agro-meteorological observatories | Number of agrometeorological observation stations (number) | + | |
Service informatization | Digital Talent Ownership | Number of workers in scientific research and technical services/total number of workers in the urban non-private units (%) | + |
Number of workers in transport, storage, and postal services/total number of workers in the urban non-private sector (%) | + | ||
Number of workers in information transmission, computer services, and software villages/total number of workers in the urban non-private sector (%) | + | ||
Digital Agriculture Innovation Base | Number of comprehensive demonstration counties for e-commerce in villages (number) | + | |
Scope of information technology services, such as the Internet of Things | Length of rural postal delivery routes (km) | + | |
Sustainable developmentlevel | Pesticide application | Pesticide application (10,000 tonnes) | − |
Fertilizer application | Fertilizer application (10,000 tonnes) | − | |
Agricultural film usage | Agricultural film usage (10,000 tonnes) | − | |
Digital information infrastructure | Rural Internet penetration | Number of Internet users in the region/population of the region (%) | + |
Rural smartphone penetration | Average number of cellphones per 100 rural homes (units) | + | |
Rural radio and television coverage | Average television ownership per 100 rural households (units) | + |
ID | Province | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Average Value |
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1 | Beijing | 0.438 | 0.455 | 0.471 | 0.485 | 0.492 | 0.505 | 0.513 | 0.525 | 0.550 | 0.558 | 0.499 |
2 | Tianjin | 0.301 | 0.328 | 0.347 | 0.361 | 0.381 | 0.386 | 0.389 | 0.412 | 0.429 | 0.466 | 0.380 |
3 | Hebei | 0.343 | 0.358 | 0.369 | 0.388 | 0.400 | 0.407 | 0.429 | 0.453 | 0.472 | 0.498 | 0.412 |
4 | Shanxi | 0.299 | 0.317 | 0.327 | 0.344 | 0.357 | 0.367 | 0.380 | 0.391 | 0.401 | 0.426 | 0.361 |
5 | Inner Mongolia | 0.316 | 0.334 | 0.351 | 0.377 | 0.394 | 0.396 | 0.435 | 0.458 | 0.470 | 0.490 | 0.402 |
6 | Liaoning | 0.314 | 0.331 | 0.363 | 0.376 | 0.399 | 0.399 | 0.408 | 0.411 | 0.424 | 0.439 | 0.386 |
7 | Jilin | 0.297 | 0.320 | 0.330 | 0.334 | 0.356 | 0.365 | 0.379 | 0.385 | 0.408 | 0.433 | 0.361 |
8 | Heilongjiang | 0.318 | 0.339 | 0.369 | 0.385 | 0.409 | 0.424 | 0.440 | 0.456 | 0.489 | 0.513 | 0.414 |
9 | Shanghai | 0.390 | 0.388 | 0.409 | 0.419 | 0.418 | 0.437 | 0.460 | 0.465 | 0.485 | 0.513 | 0.438 |
10 | Jiangsu | 0.347 | 0.374 | 0.387 | 0.400 | 0.424 | 0.441 | 0.461 | 0.473 | 0.509 | 0.532 | 0.435 |
11 | Zhejiang | 0.350 | 0.368 | 0.376 | 0.379 | 0.399 | 0.418 | 0.438 | 0.460 | 0.496 | 0.521 | 0.421 |
12 | Anhui | 0.268 | 0.295 | 0.323 | 0.341 | 0.351 | 0.372 | 0.396 | 0.415 | 0.431 | 0.459 | 0.365 |
13 | Fujian | 0.304 | 0.327 | 0.349 | 0.362 | 0.383 | 0.396 | 0.407 | 0.416 | 0.444 | 0.462 | 0.385 |
14 | Jiangxi | 0.260 | 0.275 | 0.299 | 0.313 | 0.327 | 0.343 | 0.365 | 0.387 | 0.407 | 0.426 | 0.340 |
15 | Shandong | 0.298 | 0.323 | 0.331 | 0.361 | 0.368 | 0.380 | 0.408 | 0.430 | 0.450 | 0.473 | 0.382 |
16 | Henan | 0.291 | 0.310 | 0.321 | 0.331 | 0.350 | 0.367 | 0.391 | 0.419 | 0.445 | 0.471 | 0.370 |
17 | Hubei | 0.272 | 0.298 | 0.324 | 0.345 | 0.364 | 0.377 | 0.400 | 0.428 | 0.449 | 0.466 | 0.373 |
18 | Hunan | 0.261 | 0.298 | 0.315 | 0.320 | 0.343 | 0.361 | 0.382 | 0.405 | 0.423 | 0.457 | 0.356 |
19 | Guangdong | 0.343 | 0.361 | 0.379 | 0.391 | 0.414 | 0.431 | 0.454 | 0.490 | 0.518 | 0.537 | 0.432 |
20 | Guangxi | 0.281 | 0.300 | 0.317 | 0.324 | 0.333 | 0.347 | 0.368 | 0.384 | 0.401 | 0.415 | 0.347 |
21 | Hainan | 0.267 | 0.289 | 0.297 | 0.312 | 0.336 | 0.357 | 0.370 | 0.390 | 0.407 | 0.416 | 0.344 |
22 | Chongqing | 0.229 | 0.273 | 0.319 | 0.343 | 0.360 | 0.370 | 0.390 | 0.410 | 0.397 | 0.412 | 0.350 |
23 | Sichuan | 0.292 | 0.313 | 0.340 | 0.352 | 0.375 | 0.396 | 0.419 | 0.454 | 0.466 | 0.487 | 0.390 |
24 | Guizhou | 0.213 | 0.227 | 0.253 | 0.287 | 0.307 | 0.327 | 0.352 | 0.387 | 0.405 | 0.423 | 0.318 |
25 | Yunnan | 0.250 | 0.265 | 0.290 | 0.297 | 0.314 | 0.330 | 0.354 | 0.374 | 0.400 | 0.417 | 0.329 |
26 | Shanxi | 0.317 | 0.327 | 0.343 | 0.363 | 0.378 | 0.393 | 0.411 | 0.422 | 0.430 | 0.457 | 0.384 |
27 | Gansu | 0.245 | 0.267 | 0.282 | 0.293 | 0.316 | 0.335 | 0.357 | 0.395 | 0.405 | 0.424 | 0.332 |
28 | Qinghai | 0.241 | 0.253 | 0.279 | 0.316 | 0.351 | 0.362 | 0.377 | 0.380 | 0.394 | 0.413 | 0.337 |
29 | Ningxia | 0.253 | 0.295 | 0.313 | 0.325 | 0.343 | 0.336 | 0.357 | 0.365 | 0.373 | 0.390 | 0.335 |
30 | Xinjiang | 0.272 | 0.290 | 0.323 | 0.318 | 0.332 | 0.343 | 0.356 | 0.376 | 0.397 | 0.415 | 0.342 |
Average value | 0.296 | 0.317 | 0.337 | 0.351 | 0.369 | 0.382 | 0.402 | 0.421 | 0.439 | 0.460 | 0.377 | |
Eastern region | 0.336 | 0.355 | 0.371 | 0.385 | 0.401 | 0.414 | 0.431 | 0.448 | 0.471 | 0.492 | 0.410 | |
Central region | 0.283 | 0.307 | 0.326 | 0.339 | 0.357 | 0.372 | 0.392 | 0.411 | 0.432 | 0.456 | 0.368 | |
Western region | 0.264 | 0.286 | 0.310 | 0.327 | 0.346 | 0.358 | 0.380 | 0.400 | 0.413 | 0.431 | 0.351 |
Year | Economy | Economic Geography | Inverse Distance of the Economy | ||||||
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I | Z | p | I | Z | p | I | Z | p | |
2011 | 0.464 | 4.831 | 0.000 | 0.286 | 4.445 | 0.000 | 0.314 | 4.766 | 0.000 |
2012 | 0.433 | 4.566 | 0.000 | 0.288 | 4.502 | 0.000 | 0.318 | 4.844 | 0.000 |
2013 | 0.434 | 4.594 | 0.000 | 0.240 | 3.854 | 0.000 | 0.269 | 4.201 | 0.000 |
2014 | 0.446 | 4.711 | 0.000 | 0.247 | 3.951 | 0.000 | 0.282 | 4.381 | 0.000 |
2015 | 0.401 | 4.230 | 0.000 | 0.215 | 3.465 | 0.000 | 0.244 | 3.813 | 0.000 |
2016 | 0.381 | 4.041 | 0.000 | 0.163 | 2.744 | 0.003 | 0.193 | 3.118 | 0.001 |
2017 | 0.358 | 3.753 | 0.000 | 0.133 | 2.302 | 0.011 | 0.171 | 2.771 | 0.003 |
2018 | 0.226 | 2.475 | 0.007 | 0.095 | 1.756 | 0.040 | 0.132 | 2.221 | 0.013 |
2019 | 0.204 | 2.251 | 0.012 | 0.115 | 2.033 | 0.021 | 0.148 | 2.437 | 0.007 |
2020 | 0.199 | 2.182 | 0.015 | 0.165 | 2.682 | 0.004 | 0.190 | 2.958 | 0.002 |
Year | Overall Difference G | Differences within Groups | Difference between Groups | Contribution (%) | ||||||
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Eastern Part | Central Part | Western Part | East–Central | East–West | Central–West | Gw | Gnb | Gt | ||
2011 | 0.087 | 0.073 | 0.039 | 0.069 | 0.092 | 0.126 | 0.065 | 25.418 | 64.606 | 9.976 |
2012 | 0.076 | 0.062 | 0.033 | 0.062 | 0.079 | 0.111 | 0.057 | 25.191 | 66.247 | 8.562 |
2013 | 0.067 | 0.061 | 0.028 | 0.053 | 0.074 | 0.096 | 0.047 | 26.097 | 62.095 | 11.808 |
2014 | 0.063 | 0.055 | 0.031 | 0.048 | 0.072 | 0.088 | 0.045 | 25.814 | 60.627 | 13.558 |
2015 | 0.058 | 0.049 | 0.031 | 0.045 | 0.067 | 0.080 | 0.043 | 25.641 | 60.126 | 14.233 |
2016 | 0.055 | 0.049 | 0.028 | 0.040 | 0.062 | 0.078 | 0.042 | 25.456 | 61.878 | 12.666 |
2017 | 0.053 | 0.049 | 0.028 | 0.041 | 0.057 | 0.071 | 0.041 | 26.960 | 55.844 | 17.196 |
2018 | 0.050 | 0.048 | 0.030 | 0.041 | 0.054 | 0.066 | 0.040 | 28.299 | 51.946 | 19.755 |
2019 | 0.054 | 0.052 | 0.034 | 0.036 | 0.057 | 0.074 | 0.042 | 26.742 | 57.729 | 15.528 |
2020 | 0.053 | 0.049 | 0.032 | 0.036 | 0.054 | 0.074 | 0.045 | 26.171 | 57.858 | 15.970 |
Average level | 0.062 | 0.055 | 0.031 | 0.047 | 0.067 | 0.086 | 0.047 | 26.179 | 59.896 | 13.925 |
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Zhou, X.; Zhang, B.; Chen, T. Study on the Evolution of Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Regional Differences in the Development of Digital Agriculture in China. Sustainability 2024, 16, 6947. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16166947
Zhou X, Zhang B, Chen T. Study on the Evolution of Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Regional Differences in the Development of Digital Agriculture in China. Sustainability. 2024; 16(16):6947. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16166947
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhou, Xinxin, Bangbang Zhang, and Tong Chen. 2024. "Study on the Evolution of Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Regional Differences in the Development of Digital Agriculture in China" Sustainability 16, no. 16: 6947. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16166947