Study on the method for evaluation on rural informatisation in China

摘要

Abstract This research established a set of methods suitable for China to assess the informatisation level in rural areas and analysed the status of rural informatisation in different parts of China. The study established a synthetic index method, and the process includes establishment of an indicator system, data collection, data standardisation and indexation. The average level of national rural informatisation was found to be 99.69. The top six areas are municipalities of Shanghai and Beijing, and provinces of guangdong, hebei, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. The informatisation index of Shanghai is 259.15, which is 160% higher than that of the average level in the whole country and 971 % of the level in Tibet. The building of infrastructures for rural informatisation and the application of agricultural information technology (IT) have played an evident role in the process of informatisation construction in rural areas. however, the gap of rural informatisation development between eastern and western China is st...