With rapid rural urbanization and new rural construction, the commercial energy consumption of rural residents shows a trend of rapid growth, and China’s rural areas are also faced with environmental challenges brought by the increase of commercial energy consumption. China’s commercial energy consumption behavior of rural residents has also undergone tremendous changes. However, scholars have neglected the research on rural residents’ commercial energy consumption intention from a micro perspective. Therefore, this study takes the 5 villages in Chengdu out of the 100 representative villages in the Sichuan province as examples. From the perspective of the head of a family of permanent rural residents, extended planned behavior theory, exploratory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling are used to explore the influencing factors of rural resident commercial energy consumption intention and their relationship. Findings show that subjective norm, perceived behavioral control (PBC), and habit significantly affect residents’ behavioral intention. Habits significantly influence subjective norms and PBC. Therefore, in the new rural construction, rural residents are the main body and participants of energy consumption. Local government departments should plan reasonably according to the needs and characteristics of residents, constantly improve commercial energy infrastructure, improve service level, and further strengthen farmers’ attitude and satisfaction toward commercial energy. Moreover, they should increase the publicity and education of commercial energy, advocate green housing, and promote energy saving consumption reduction, and sustainable development in new rural areas.

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Since the founding of the theory of inclusive growth, it has been widely researched worldwide. However, most of the researches are more focused on the macro-level measurement, but lack of systematic research on micro-level implementation and viable path. From a micro view prospective, this article studies Chinese rural infrastructure with its influence factors and defining inclusive infrastructure. The literature review will clarify the influencing factors of inclusive infrastructure, as to lay the assessment and policy decision foundation of rural infrastructure.

The theory of inclusive growth has been widely studied. However, most studies focus on the measurement of macro-field research, and no systematic research has been carried out on the realization and path of micro-field research, especially in project management. This paper clarifies the key factors which impact the inclusive growth of rural infrastructure projects through a literature review to lay a foundation for evaluation and policy formulation in rural infrastructure projects. The analysis of factors identified by a literature review is conducted based on data derived from questionnaire results received from 135 stakeholders. The universality of 41 factors was verified by the Kruskal–Wallis test to examine whether the importance of influencing factors varies in different infrastructure types or different stakeholders. Factor analysis categorized 41 factors into seven common factors, thus, an inclusive evaluation framework for project management is constructed. The evaluation framework of inclusive infrastructure is constructed from seven perspectives. The evaluation framework is proposed for the first time in the field of rural infrastructure management, and a new evaluation system is proposed for the performance evaluation of rural infrastructure.