Exploring the urban-rural development differences and influencing factors in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China

Mingyang CHENG; Linna LI; Yang ZHOU

doi:10.1007/s11442-020-1802-z

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Journal of Geographical Sciences
Vol. 30, Issue 10, 1603 (2020)

Exploring the urban-rural development differences and influencing factors in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China

Mingyang CHENG¹, Linna LI¹, and Yang ZHOU^1,2,3,*

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¹Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

²Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China

³University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Mingyang CHENG, Linna LI, Yang ZHOU. Exploring the urban-rural development differences and influencing factors in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2020, 30(10): 1603 Copy Citation Text

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Fig. 1. Location of the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China

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Fig. 2. Spatial pattern of urban-rural difference index values in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain in 2015

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Fig. 3. Different types of urban-rural population-land-industry in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain in 2015

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Fig. 4. Spatial patterns of road network coverage level, natural, economic and social factors in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain in 2015

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Fig. 5. Geographically weighted regression coefficients of the urban-rural difference index in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain in 2015

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Destination layer	Criteria layer	Index layer	Weights
Urban development	Urban population	Proportion of workers to the total urban population in secondary and tertiary industries	0.50
	Urban population	Disposable income of urban residents	0.50
	Urban land	Intensive level of land use in urban built-up areas (person/km²)	0.51
	Urban land	Secondary and tertiary industrial output value per km² in urban built-up areas	0.49
	Urban industry	Urban per capita output value of secondary and tertiary industries (yuan per capita)	1.00
Rural development	Rural population	Proportion of rural workers to the total rural population	0.50
	Rural population	Disposable income of rural residents	0.50
	Rural land	Intensive level of land use in rural settlements (person/km²)	0.51
	Rural land	Grain output value per km² of cultivated land	0.49
	Rural industry	Output value per capita of rural primary industry	1.00

Table 1.

Indicators of the urban-rural difference index

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Factors	Index layer	Weights
Road network coverage level	Highway length per km²	0.20
	National road length per km²	0.26
	Provincial road length per km²	0.23
	County road length per km²	0.28
	Railway length per km²	0.13
Natural factors	County average slope
Economic factors	County per capita GDP	0.40
	County per capita public finance income	0.30
	County per capita taxes	0.30
Social factors	County per capita social welfare homes	0.31
	County per capita medical and health beds	0.36
	Proportion of students to the county population	0.33

Table 2.

Indicators of the factors influencing urban-rural development

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Urban-rural population		Urban-rural land		Urban-rural industry		Development level
UP_i	RP_i	UL_i	RL_i	UI_i	RI_i	Development level
[0, 0.3]	[0, 0.3]	[0, 0.3]	[0, 0.3]	[0, 0.3]	[0, 0.3]	Low
(0.3, 0.6]	(0.3, 0.6]	(0.3, 0.6]	(0.3, 0.6]	(0.3, 0.6]	(0.3, 0.6]	Medium
(0.6, 1]	(0.6, 1]	(0.6, 1]	(0.6, 1]	(0.6, 1]	(0.6, 1]	High

Table 3.

Grading standards for urban-rural development

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Development type	Urban-ruralpopulation (%)	Urban-rural land (%)	Urban-rural industry (%)
Low-level urban-rural development	9.33 (28)	13.33 (40)	83.67 (251)
Low-level urban development and medium-level rural development	28.67 (86)	48.00 (144)	6.00 (18)
Low-level urban development and high-level rural development	0.33 (1)	7.33 (22)	0.33 (1)
Medium-level urban development and low-level rural development	5.00 (15)	6.33 (19)	7.00 (21)
Medium-level urban-rural development	49.67 (149)	18.00 (54)	1.33 (4)
Medium-level urban development and high-level rural development	6.33 (19)	4.33 (13)	0.67 (2)
High-level urban development and low-level rural development	0	1.00 (3)	1.00 (3)
High-level urban development and medium-level rural development	0.33 (1)	1.67 (5)	0
High-level urban-rural development	0.33 (1)	0	0