Abstract
In recent years, rural transformation has gradually become the focus of scholars and governments in the context of global sustainable development; it is of great significance to achieve urban-rural integration and coordinated development through studying the spatial-temporal characteristics and driving mechanism of rural transformation development. This paper analyzes the spatial-temporal characteristics of county-rural transformation development through drawing into the transformation degree (TD) and coordination degree (CD) from the viewpoint of “population–land–industry” (PT-IT-LT) in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. It explores the mechanism of PT-IT-LT on the rural transformation in different stages through multi-element positioning in the same space coordinate system and carries out functional regionalization on the basis of transformation and coordination research. The results showed that: (1) The CD and TD were divided into four types, namely, the lower-level, low-level, middle-level and high-level, and had a similar changed tendency from 1990 to 2015, where the middle- and high-level were in the central counties of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the lower- and low-level were in the other parts of the region. (2) According to the mechanism analysis, stages A and B were mainly influenced by industry transformation; stage D was affected by population transformation; and stage E was influenced by land transformation. (3) The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region was divided into an ecological conservation area, a key development area and a core leading area, according to the study, which would provide a scientific basis to achieve integration of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and regional strategic optimization.
Highlights
Since reform and opening up, China has experienced a rapid urbanization process with rapid socioeconomic development
Coordination has been an important part of the rural transformation and an important criterion to measure whether rural development has been sustainable or not
The study of rural transformation has mainly focused on the population, land and industry, and it has had a great deal of research to analyze the coordination of rural development [7,13,15,16], but the question of how to explain the development of rural transformation systematically and comprehensively and how to explore the mechanism of “population-land-industry” (PT-IT-LT)—which consists of three factors, population, land and industry—scientifically has still been difficult
Summary
Since reform and opening up, China has experienced a rapid urbanization process with rapid socioeconomic development. The study of rural transformation has mainly focused on the population, land and industry, and it has had a great deal of research to analyze the coordination of rural development [7,13,15,16], but the question of how to explain the development of rural transformation systematically and comprehensively and how to explore the mechanism of “population-land-industry” (PT-IT-LT)—which consists of three factors, population, land and industry—scientifically has still been difficult. To solve these problems, this paper puts forward the coordination degree (CD) and TD, and combines them with PT-IT-LT in the same space coordinate system in different stages. The study is significant for the rural sustainable development and the integration of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the future, and it provides method references for the study of rural development
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