| As an important part of the rural revitalization strategy proposed by the 19 th CPC National Congress,rural lavatory renovation is of great importance meaning to farmers’ residential environment and their living quality.At this stage,the lavatory renovation work still faces problems such as low willingness of farmers to change lavatories and later cleaning management of lavatories.How to set a reasonable lavatory renovation mode and subsidy level to mobilize farmers’ willingness to change lavatories and promote the improvement of lavatories has important significance.This article takes Dawangzhuang Town,Jinan,Shandong Province as an example,and uses the Contingent Valuation Method(CVM)to study the willingness of farmers to pay for changing lavatories under different lavatory renovation modes and different subsidy levels,as well as the changing rules of their influencing factors.Provide reference for policy formulation.Through literature review the research first determined the research objectives and methods and expounded related concepts such as the lavatory revolution and willingness to pay to establish theoretical support;then established the research framework of the Contingent Valuation Method and Cox regression model,laying the foundation for the empirical research,and conduct preliminary analysis of the data obtained by designing questionnaires and field visits;finally,analyzed the existing data empirically according to the established research framework and model.In the research we discovered that :Farmers’ highest willingness to pay for the lavatory modification model,reaching217.68 RMB,was “the lavatory should be modified on their own as the relevant standard,and then the government reimbursed and regularly subsidized the cleaning costs”.With the subsidy rose from 800 RMB to 2,000 RMB,farmers’ willingness to pay increased from 169.69 RMB to 236.32 RMB,and its rate of increase maximized when the subsidy amount rose from 1600 RMB to 1800 RMB.As the lavatory modification model changed form government’s responsibility to cleanup to government subsidizing cleanup fee,the willingness to pay has shown a downward,constant,and upward trend,same situation as the amount of subsidies increased.Farmers willingness to pay under various amount of subsidies showed obvious correlation with the number of existing lavatory problems and the awareness of the significance of lavatory modification.Under different lavatory modification model,the effect of education level,number of existing lavatory problems,awareness of the significance of lavatory modification,whether to change lavatory,etc.,on the willingness to pay has gradually weakened as altered from no cleanup measures to available,yet age effect on the willingness to pay has gradually increased.Under different subsidy levels,factors such as education level,number of migrants,number of existing lavatory problems,and awareness of the significance of lavatory modification,gradually weakened their effect on farmers’ willingness to pay as the increase in subsidy amount;with the rising of the subsidy amount,the effect of weather to modify lavatories on willingness to pay increased and then decreased when the subsidy amount reaches the lavatory cost. |
