Manifestations and Root Cause Analysis on Non-Equilibrium between Major Grain Production Areas and Sales Areas

YU Liang-liang;CAI Yin-ying;College of Public Administration,Huazhong Agricultural University;

major grain production areas and sales areas;;regional difference;;basic public service;;major func-tional zone

From the narrow perspective on the differences in economic development and broad perspective on the differences in basic public services respectively,this paper quantitatively analyzed the gaps and variation about the economic development and the basic public services between major grain production areas and sales areas from 1998 to 2011to provide appropriate support policy recommendations for major functional zone.Several conclusions can be drawn from this research.The first one is that the region′s total Theil and the Theil between two regions show ‘inverted U'pattern,indicating that the relative regional differences and the relative regional differences between the two regions gradually narrowing.Secondly,not only the GDP per capita measured in absolute economic difference but also to the broad perspective on the measure in basic public service difference,the disparities are expanding.The gaps between the real income levels and the access to basic public service are huge and the non-equilibrium phenomena about economic development and welfare are serious between major grain producing areas and sales areas.Thirdly,combining the major functional zone,the different intensity of land use control system and the loss of land development rights to major grain producing areas also enlarge the non-equilibrium welfare.The introduction of major functional zone affects major grain producing areas′economic development greatly.So the country should establish the mechanism to balance regional development and welfare in long term by ecological compensation and financial transfer payment in order to promote welfare equilibrium between major grain production areas and sales areas.