The Influence of Education Degree on Sources and Structure of Chinese Peasants Income

In recent years, the income structure of Chinese peasants changes significantly and is mainly embodiedin the continuous decline of agricultural income ratio and the rising of non-agricultural income. Based on the relateddata of 30 provinces and municipalities of China during 2000-2011, the analysis shows that generally there is anegative relation between average education years of the peasants and family business income, that there is apositive relation between their education years and their wage income and asset income, that the lower their culturaldegree is, the stronger their dependency is, however, the peasants with senior high school education has obviouslyexclusive tendency on their family business income while the influence of the peasants with the education lower thanjunior high school on their wage income is not significant, but the influence of the peasants with senior high schooleducation on their wage income is obviously positive. Therefore, wage income will replace family business incomeand become the main income of Chinese peasants, however, the education degree of the peasants must be promotedif their wage income needs to be increased.