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Arid Land Geography ›› 2026, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (6): 1226-1237.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.518

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Measurement, spatiotemporal evolution and obstacle factors analysis of the development level of agricultural new quality productivity in China

YANG An()   

  1. School of FinanceHunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha 410205, Hunan, China
  • Received:2025-08-29 Revised:2025-10-30 Online:2026-06-25 Published:2026-06-29

Abstract:

The index system of agricultural new quality productivity is constructed based on Marx’s theory of the three factors of productivity. Employing panel data from 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China from 2011 to 2022, the entropy method, Dagum Gini coefficient, Moran’s I, Markov chain model, and obstacle degree model are used to measure the level of agricultural new quality productivity in China and analyze its spatial and temporal evolution characteristics. The results reveal that (1) During the study period, the development level of China’s agricultural new quality productivity increases steadily, but an imbalance persists, with a spatial distribution pattern characterized by “high in the east and low in the west, high in the south and low in the north”, and it spreads from the east to the central and western regions. (2) The level gap of agricultural new quality productivity in China is expanding, and in order of significance, the overall differences arise from interregional differences, intraregional differences, and ultravariable density. The interregional differences mainly originate from the east-west and east-central regions, while the intraregional differences primarily occur within the eastern regions. (3) There is a significant positive spatial correlation in the level of agricultural new quality productivity nationwide, and the local spatial autocorrelation types are mainly “high-high” and “low-low” agglomeration. The evolution trend exhibits “club convergence” and the “Matthew effect”, and there is a significant spatial spillover effect in the agricultural new quality productivity in the provinces at a high level. (4) The analysis of obstacle factors reveals that new quality labor materials and new quality labor objects are the main factors restricting the development of agricultural new quality productivity. The new quality industry, represented by the proportion of Taobao villages and the penetration rate of rural Internet; scientific and technological innovation, represented by the number of agricultural patents and the standardization level of agricultural products; and innovative laborers, represented by farmers’ entrepreneurial activity and the proportion of agricultural scientific and technological activities, are the key factors constraining the promotion of agricultural new quality productivity.

Key words: agricultural new quality productivity, level measurement, spatiotemporal evolution, regional differences, innovation drive