Analysis of the Pattern of Rural Settlement Integration Based on Farmers’Behavior Response:A case study in Xingba village, Hechuan District of Chongqing
基于农户行为响应的农村居民点整合模式探析——以重庆市合川区兴坝村为例

The study about integration of rural settlement has important practical meaning and theoretical value for rural development because the integration of rural settlement is a reasonable and effective way to organize and allocate the rural land resources, and can improve the rural settlement environment, promote agricultural scale management and improve the land value. Based on the theory of relevant behavioral science,, this paper first constructed a model of rural settlement on the response of farmers’ integration decision-making process. After that, it used participatory rural assessment to research farmers in a small village in Chongqing, and analyzed the responsiveness of different types of farmers considering their living situation, housing situation and the future development of livelihood. At last, the paper summarized different patterns of integrations based on the rural settlement response degree of different types of farmers. Xingba village is located in ErLang town, Hechuan district of Chongqing city; it is in the middle of hilly basin and has subtropical moist monsoon climate and an elevation of 290m to 430m. Many farmers in this village prefer to work in cities rather than stay at home, and we name these farmers farmer workers. We divide our team into seven groups and then have a deep interview with the farmers to get the 939 investigations, after that we put the survey data into the computer in our laboratory, and finally get the farmers’response data through the construction of peasant household behavior response model. In addition, with the help of the difference degree of response, the living situation, housing situation and the will of different types of farmers, we have deduced four integration modes on the integration of rural settlement in xingba village: agricultural development-oriented integration mode, household integration mode, non-agricultural development-oriented integration mode and retaining integration mode.