Abstract
The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is one of four major national development strategies in China, accomplishing the balance between protection and development of YREB has long-term and comprehensive significance to the implementation of China’s green development concept. This paper aims to have a more comprehensive understanding of the green development level of 126 cities in YREB from 2008 to 2017 by constructing an innovative evaluation system of “capacity level-coordination level-comprehensive level”. And on this basis, further analysis is carried out to check whether there is spatial effect in green development by means of the Markov chain. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) Urban green development comprehensive level in YREB is characterized by convergence, and the convergence phenomenon is more prominent in high-level cities; (2) In general, the distribution of high-value cities is decreasing from east to west; (3) The transition of club convergence is significantly influenced by neighbor background. Overall, the YREB is undergoing a transformation to step into the greener development path, still needs to take a series of synergistic guidance strategies to solve the problem of unbalanced regional development.
Highlights
Green development has led an important direction of urban and regional development as a global consensus, which emphasizes the coordination of resources, environment, economy and society
The green development level of the spatial units in Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) are divided into four classes: very low (VL), low (L), high (H), and very high (VH)
In order to study the change of green development level of the YREB
Summary
Green development has led an important direction of urban and regional development as a global consensus, which emphasizes the coordination of resources, environment, economy and society. In the context that global development turning from traditional model to green model, Chinese government regards green development as one of the five concepts for national development. Green development has gradually become the development principles for Chinese cities and regions. The report is regarded as the start of green development concept [2]. There is a consensus on the understanding of green development: resources and environment should be regarded as internal factor of development; the coordination of economy, society and ecology should be emphasized; greenization of social and economic activities should be the main content and approach [3,4,5]
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