Methods
To classify the rural development types, we regard that, if
a certain indicator value of a county exceeds the sum of the indicator’s
mean and standard deviation, it can be determined that
rural development in this county is dominated by the factors
relative to the indicator. Accordingly, the indicator system classifying
rural development types was constructed (Table 4).
Because the socio-economic data for the various indicators in
Table 3 are in many different dimensions, it was impossible to