Variations of Regional Difference of Agricultural Economy Growth in Fujian Province

The imbalance of economic growth in Fujian agriculture has generally attracted the attentions of the government as well as academic circle.Issues concerned include how to describe and to what extent should the imbalance be narrowed.Based on county-level data,the study used the GDP growth rate of agriculture as a variable to measure the regional difference of agricultural economy in Fujian province,and gave a dynamic time and space sequence analysis on the differences,in terms of the whole province and that between cities and counties over the past 10 years.Concrete index included the calculation of the range,the standard deviation and coefficient of variation of the chosen index.Results showed that the general difference of agricultural economy in the whole province appeared a narrowing trend,but the growth difference between cities and counties appeared a widening trend.By the combination of the GDP data and related graphics,the spatial distribution characteristics of Fujian′s regional agro-economy difference during 1999 and 2009 was discussed,together with the cause of such spatial difference.