Analysis on Consumption Behavior of Zhejiang Province’s Farmers from the Perspective of Their Income Increase

With rapid development of industrialization in Zhejiang Province, surplus rural labor forces move to the secondary and tertiary industries. Farmers of Zhejiang Province are no exception. They turn to industrial workers and their income source has great changes. Wage income becomes their major source of income. Accordingly, farmers’ consumption behavior has great changes. Apart from satisfying basic production and living demands, farmers start to pursue living quality and their life style tends to urbanization. Nevertheless, under the influence of rural physical environment, policies and systems, the existing consumption environment fails to follow farmers’ urban lifestyle any more. In line with how to optimize rural consumption environment, improve farmers’ consuming capacity, continue to expand farmers’ consumption and promote urbanization development of rural areas, this paper presents pertinent countermeasures and recommendations.