Abstract:

To explore the quality evaluation method of rural human settlements’ environment, five first grade indexes (prosperous industries, livable ecology, civilized countryside, effective governance and wealthy life), and 31 second grade indicators are selected to build up the evaluation system from the beautiful countryside perspective. According to the overall score of each village, the villages’ human settlements’ environment qualities are categorized into four levels: excellent, good, fare, and non-satisfied. Six villages in one town of Yantai were investigated. The results show that there are some differences between villages on the overall scores and the first grade indexes reflecting the unbalanced village human settlements’ environment construction. The score of effective governance and wealthy life are relatively low, indicating more efforts are needed to improve the ability of village governance and develop rural economy in multiple ways to increase farmer’s income. The paper puts forward suggestions to promote the quality of rural human settlements’ environment, including formulating the development goal and plan of rural human settlements with village as the spatial unit, establishing the objective index statistical system of rural human settlements based on villages, and giving a full play of the role of rural grass-roots organizations to improve their governance ability, and developing rural economy in multiple ways to increase farmers' income.

Key words: Rural Community, Human Settlements’ Environment, Objective Evaluation, Evaluation Index