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Table 2. The marginal change of farmland conversion.
Yea r
The rate of second
industry to GDP
The rate of third industry to
GDP
Urban and rural income
ratio
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5
−0.09144
0.129545 0.060225 −0.06096 1.22687
−0.09232
0.130789 0.056713 −0.06155 1.238649
−0.09319
0.13202 0.053239 −0.06 213 1.250302
−0.09415
0.133384 0.049386 −0.06277 1.263224
−0.09523
0.134904 0.045095 −0.06348 1.277618
−0.09631
0.136435 0.040771 −0.0642 1.29212
−0.09752
0.138157 0.035910 −0.06501 1.308426
−0.09889
0.140091 0.030447 −0.06593 1.326748
−0.10041
0.142253 0.024343 −0.06694 1.347224
−0.10146
0.14373 0.020174 −0.06 764 1.361208
−0.10245
0.145144 0.016180 −0.0683 1.374604
−0.10359
0.146751 0.011644 −0.06906 1.389817
−0.1046
0.148181 0.007605 −0.06973 1.403365
The effect of consumption growth rate to farmland conversion is very little. With the development of
economy, people’s actual consumption level has been greatly improved, consumption structure has also
changed, but from 1999 to 2011, the improvement of people’s consumption level did not increase the de-
mand for farmland.
4) Effect of urban and rural income ratio to farmland conversion
Because the income of urban residents increases more and more quickly, there is a great income gap be-
tween urban residents and rural residents. The increasing income of urban residents stimulates the demand for
farmland, so more and more farmland change into construction land.
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