Study on evaluation of rural human settlement

Rural human settlement is a comprehensive concept involving both living environment of human and social economy. The principles, goal layer, systemic layer and index layer of index system of evaluation of rural human settlement were discussed in this paper to provide theory basis for the proper evaluation of rural human settlement. And the modified model of Delphi was established, and applied to evaluate the human settlement of eight towns in Neixiang County, Henan Province. The results are basically consistent with facts of eight towns indicating that the index system and model of evaluation are just ified.