Abstract:

On the basis of previous research on agriculture land intensive use level evaluation methods and agricultural products market accessibility evaluation methods,agriculture land intensive use level and agricultural products consumption market accessibility level of counties along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province in 2007 were calculated and their relationship was analyzed by mathematical statistics method.The research conclusion could be summarized by two main points.Firstly,there was obvious spatial difference of the comprehensive evaluation value of agriculture land intensive use and agricultural products consumption market accessibility among counties along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province,and their rank correlation coefficient was 0361,which implied significant correlation under the confidence level of 005.Accordingly,there was a weak spatial corresponding relationship between agriculture land intensive use level and agricultural products consumption market accessibility of counties along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province.Secondly,under the conditions of modern market economy, the direct influence degree of agriculture consumption market accessibility on agriculture land intensive use level decreased not only as the explicitly reduction of transportation cost from agriculture production area to agricultural products consumption market area as the rapid development of transportation of counties along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province,but also as the emergence of new factors that affected agriculture land intensive use spatial distribution,such as the closely relationship between agricultural products and light industry, agricultural products specialization,and cultivated land conversion under rapid economic development of counties along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province.Therefore,the practical significance of the Thunen Agriculture Location Theory,which described the spatial distribution pattern of the agriculture land intensive use level and agricultural products consumption market accessibility as“agricultural products market accessibilityagricultural land intensive use level”,had been descended explicitly under the modern market economy environment.