The Comparison of Individual Differences in Occupational Differentiation of Peasants in China - The Perspective Based on Differences in Degree of Specialization

Occupational differentiation of farmers has important significance for promoting the development of agricultural modernization and the modernization of the State. Occupational differentiation of individual farmers in China is different in degree, and farmers´ occupational differentiation in this article is divided into three types - the professional farmers (undifferentiated ones), part-time farmers and totally differentiated farmers engaged in non-agricultural industries. Based on differences in degree of specialization, these three categories of farmers were compared in the aspects of individual characteristics, family characteristics, employment status to identify their patterns and characteristics, and thus to provide the basis for the reasonable boot vocational differentiation of the farmers.