Regional Differences of Public Sanitation in China's Rural Areas

The main emphasis is placed on classifying rural areas in China based on the conditions of sanitation facilities. Treatments and recycles of crop wastes and livestock or human manures in rural China are generally introduced in the paper, also included the water purified conditions. It is the initial objective to describe the regional characteristics of sanitation construction in rural China, and illustrate the scenario of sustainable agricultural environment. To accomplish the objective, principal component analysis and cluster analysis are applied as the methodology, on the basis of the data collected from the Second Chinese National Agricultural Census (2006).