Located in Central China and the middle reaches of Yangtze River, Hubei Province is distributed in a transitional belt where physical conditions and landscapes are on the transition from north to south and from east to west. It is one of the regions possessing most energetic and greatest potential in both today and future socio-economic development in Central China. Well known as "a land of rice and fish", the region enjoys some of the favorable physical conditions, with a diversity of in natural resources and the suitability for growing various crops. According to analytic hierarchy process (...