The Study On The Contribution Of Agriculture-involving Higher-Education Self-Study Examinations To The Growth Of Agricultural Economy In Sichuan Province

With the development of knowledge economy, scientific technology has become the most active element in the social and economic development. While the key to improving, mastering and making use of scientific technology is people, whose cultivation and mastery of knowledge and techniques, in turn, promote the innovation of scientific technology, as well as the development of society and economy. In modern times, it is the degree of a nation's education and its mastery of advanced scientific technology, instead of its abundance in material resources that decide whether a country can seize the opportunity and take the initiative in the fiercely global competition. Only with competent citizens, can a country succeed in the future competition and keep the sustainable development of economy.Taking Sichuan province as the subject, this study probes into the contribution of higher-education self-study examinations to the growth of agricultural economy by comprehensively using the theories and methods of education economics, statistics and economics. First, the paper gives an objective statement of related studies abroad and at home, the research contents and methods etc. Then, the paper analyzes the theoretical basis of this study by means of the theories of manpower capital and economic growth. And last, based on the respective analysis of the higher-education self-study examinations and the status quo of agricultural economic development in Sichuan province and with regard to the progressively decreasing trend of enrollment in such examinations, questionnaires are devised to investigate the influencing factors and logit model is established in terms of data accumulated to analyze the factors affecting examinees' desire to enroll in self-study examinations as well as the relationship between the development of agricultural economy and the higher-education self-study examinations. By using data accumulated from 1986 to 2006, the paper quantitatively explores the contribution of agriculture-involving higher-education self-study examinations to the growth of agricultural economy. Meanwhile, by means of co-integration test, VAR model, impulse response function and Granger causality test, the relationship between higher-education self-study examinations and the growth of agricultural economy has been tested positively. The results show that (1) the long-term stable balanced relationship exists between the graduates' number as well as invested funds of self-study examinations, the investment of agricultural fixed assets and the growth of agricultural economy; (2) the contribution of long-term capital investment to the growth of agricultural economy is remarkable. Some effective suggestions are put forward based on the conclusions.