China has been closely cooperating with Kazakhstan in agriculture since “the Belt and Road” initiative was put forward, but this cooperation largely depends on an appropriate selection of agricultural investment to develop in a challenging global environment. This paper uses value chain to divide agricultural value chain into five chains, production, logistics, information, sales and innovation, and applies fsQCA to analyze the factors configuration of and path to Kazakhstan's agricultural development based on its 17 states' 2019 data. Production-sales mutual chain is the major drive for Kazakhstan's high level agricultural value chain, which is composed of two configurations, “production-sales chain*(~information chain)*(~innovation chain)” and “production chain*logistics chain*sales chain*(~innovation chain)”. A path leading to Kazakhstan's lower level agricultural value chain can be attributed to lagging-producing-capacity-constraining” and “non-agricultural-industrial-oriented”, the former including “(~production chain)*(~logistics chain)*(~information chain)” and (~production chain)*logistic chain*information chain*(~sales chain)*innovation chain”, and the latter including “production chain*logistics chain*information chain*sales chain*innovation chain”. Production chain and sales chain are the main drives to Kazakhstan's agricultural development, which is limited by innovation chain, but potentially powered by logistics chain and information chain. This paper suggests that Kazakhstan fulfill its advantages in agricultural production and sales in some states, cooperate with China's agricultural technology, information technology and infrastructure, deepen both parties' complementarity in the whole agricultural production chain, getting rid of Kazakhstan's agricultural transforming dilemma along with reaching a win-win.

This paper,based on the definition of adaptability of industrial ecological system in mining zones,uses vulnerability,sensitivity,stability and elasticity to establish an index system to evaluate the adapt ability of Huoqiu in 2008 to 2012 by means of a hierarchical AHP and entropy is used to give weight of each index,combined with a levelled evaluation.The results show Huoqiu’s adaptability climbs to 0.1756 from 0.1585,indicating a rising adaptability and a descending vulnerability.Among Huoqiu’s industries,resources and environment system’s adaptability rose largely,but with a higher sensitivity,strong vulnerability and poor stability.This paper gives proposals to enhance Huoqiu’s adaptability of industrial ecological system.

This paper, based on Tongling's society, economy and environment, which is a resource-exhausted city, establishes through references and experts an index system to evaluate Tongling's environmental loading capacity, and uses AHP to determine each indexs weight and acquires the relative surplus model which is applied to evaluate Tonglings environmental loading capacity in 2008-2011. The result shows an overloading more than 23.7% per year, and an concerted condition between economy and resource&environment, which, however, is turning on a right direction. This paper presents suggestions developing a concerted economy-resource-environment in Tongling.

This paper uses Delphi and AHP to establish an index system and evaluation model to evaluate the overlapped and occupied farmland damage degree in Southwest Chinas mining areas, which includes three onetier, six twotier and nine threetier indexes. Onetier indexes are farmland soil, environment and auxiliary. Indexes with bigger weight are farmland overlapped ratio, surface pool and soil bulk density. The evaluation results from a case study is consistent with the truth of overlapped and occupied farmland damage degree, providing references in rehabilitation approach and technology in Southwest Chinas mining areas.

How to promote economic development in rural areas during the prevailing new countryside construction is a vital worthwhile point. This paper, based on the successful experience of rural development in Bavarian State, Germany, presents a principle and core for rural development: public participation in land management.