Comprehensive Evaluation of Cultivated Land Resources in China Based on Three Dimensions: Quantity, Quality and Ecology Danger

Abstract

Based on TOPSIS-Grey Relational Analysis Method, the three dimensions of cultivated land quantity, quality and ecological danger are organically integrated to build a comprehensive evaluation indicator system of practical and national cultivated land resources and quantitative calculation method by taking the province-level administrative region as the evaluation unit. The index of cultivated land quantity, quality, and ecological danger and the comprehensive index of cultivated land resources are calculated quantitatively in 31 province-level administrative regions of China. The comprehensive endowment and superiority of cultivated land resources in each province are also analysed systematically. The results show that there are 10 provinces (municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous regions) classified as “high superiority” provinces in terms of cultivated land resources. There are 9 provinces classified as “relatively high superiority” provinces. The dominant types of cultivated land resources in China can be classified into six types: superiority type of quantity, superiority type of quantity and ecology, superiority type of quality and ecology, superiority type of ecology, comprehensive superiority type, and unclear superiority type. Most provinces have a certain “single superiority”, “double superiority”, or “comprehensive superiority”.