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| THE STUDY ON THE SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HOUSEHOLDS' CONSUMPTION ACTIVITY IN XINZHOU COUNTY OF WUHAN CITY |
| LI Bo-hua1,2, LI Xing-ming3, ZENG Ju-xin2,3 |
1. Department of Resources and Environment & Tourism Management, Hengyang Normal College, Hengyang 421008, China;
2. Center of Chinese Rural Studies, HuaZhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China;
3. School of Urban and Environmental Sciences, HuaZhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China |
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Abstract In the past 20 years, the households have got free action space with the rural political and economic reform as well as the promotion of "putting people first" principle. Households' spatial-activities underwent dramatic changes when certain social-economic situation permittted, especially the households' consumption behavior which has met the spatial demand of diversification and individuation in the new period. Their consumption contents and space broke traditional consumption space pattern. Furthermore, consumption activities are influenced by social-economic system on one hand and deeply affect villages' space structure on the other hand. So in the background of urbanization, it is important to make new countryside construction planning and to solve the space problems in village spatial-layout adjustment by studying the spatial activity preference of households' consumption from a microcosmic perspective and by forecasting the trend and impact of households' consumption spatial-activities. At present, the achievements of households' consumption activities gradually increase in academic field, but most of them focus on agricultural economics fields. The paper summarizs the common features of households' consumption activities based on on-site inspections and questionnaire survey of 326 families from 11 villages, 3 different towns in Xinzhou District. The study shows that: firstly, the gender differences are notable in households' spatial consumption preferences; secondly, the incomes and age are main factors in forming households' consumption spatial structure; thirdly, households' education level has no obvious influences on the formation of households' consumption space.
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Received: 02 July 2008
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2010, Vol. 25 
