Spatial evaluation and regionalization of comprehensive urbanization level in China

Abstract

The development of China's urbanization has significant regional differences. This paper constructs an evaluation system for China's comprehensive urbanization level in terms of three aspects: population, economy and society. Entropy method is adopted to evaluate the comprehensive urbanization level of 2,289 county unites in China and construct urbanization type regions; and the method of spatial autocorrelation is used to regionalize the level of China's comprehensive urbanization. The results show that population and economy are two major subtypes reflecting the comprehensive urbanization level of China; the spatial distribution of China's comprehensive urbanization represents a clear administrative hierarchy; China can been divided into four types of comprehensive urbanization regions, namely, population urbanization lag regions; economic and social urbanization lag regions, comprehensive urbanization lag regions and comprehensive urbanization non-lag regions; Regionalization of three kinds of urbanization types are different in pattern, mechanism and mode.