The analysis of econometric relationship between rural informatization and agricultural economic growth in China

Nowadays information is an important factor and new strong impetus in economic and social development, so it is not exceptive to rural development. However, how to weigh the contribution of information technology to countryside? According to the model of Cobb-Douglas' production function and Solow's improved model, a new model of relationship was built up between rural informatization and agricultural economic growth in this research, and the rural information indexes of every province in China were gotten, which was the key part in measuring the rural informatization. Through econometric analysis, there were obviously positive relationship between the index of information and the index of GDP per worker in agriculture, and the coefficient of informational elasticity was very big and statistically significant. So we should actively develop informatization and increase its level in agriculture under preventing plantation from decreasing in future.