Analysis On Changes In Food Consumption And Influencing Factors Of Urban And Rural Residents In Inner Mongolia

With China’s rapid economic growth, income and consumption levels of urban and rural residents has been greatly improved, food consumption structure of urban and rural residents has also changed greatly. Food structure of residents in our country is experiencing the changes that the plant fiber is given priority to animal fats and high in protein. Animal foodstuffs (meat, eggs, fish, and milk) consumption increased year by year, in contrast, grain consumption dropped significantly, substitution of animal foodstuffs continue to strengthen, consumption of fruits and vegetables is low, but it has an upward trend. In this context, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is one of the ethnic characteristics of the border areas, whether there are differences between the Inner Mongolia in the food of consumption demand, consumption structure, consumption trend and nearly 10 years of food consumption characteristics in China, what factors influence the urban and rural residents’ food consumption in this area? Researching and answering to these questions is not only beneficial to the development of the minority areas of food industry, as well as social and economic stability in the border areas. Therefore, according to the Inner Mongolia region of food consumption, income and consumption level, this article from the perspective of qualitative and quantitative analyzes the factors that affect the changes of food consumption in Inner Mongolia area, This study mainly used canonical correlation coefficient method to analyze the food industry development level, agricultural industrial structure, urbanization level, the income of urban and rural residents for the major food consumer spending. The research results show that the income level of resident is the largest factor to the influence of urban and rural residents’food consumption in Inner Mongolia area, the second is the relative price level, the average education level, etc. Finally, according to the development of Inner Mongolia, this article put forward promoting optimization and upgrading of industrial structure of agriculture and developing food processing industry and other policy recommendations.