Spatial-temporal evolution characteristics and influencing factors of county rural hollowing in Henan

Menghao Yang,Lianhai Cao,Jie Huang,Zhihong Yao,Haipeng Zhang

doi:10.1590/0103-8478cr20180619

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Taking Henan province as an example, the index system of rural hollowing was constructed from three aspects of economy, population and land. Using the entropy weight method, hollowing index method, spatial autocorrelation analysis and Geo detector, spatial-temporal evolution characteristics and influencing factors of county rural hollowing from 2000 to 2013 in Henan province were analyzed. Results showed that the gap of rural hollowing between counties in Henan province expanded first and then decrease, and the whole province was at the middle level of rural hollowing, so the development of rural hollowing in Henan province was stable and positive. Spatial variation characteristics of different degrees rural hollowing during 2000-2013 were obvious, and the overall spatial pattern was higher in the northwest-southeast direction and lower in the northeast-southwest direction. There was a strong spatial positive correlation in rural hollowing, and spatial agglomeration was slightly weakened; the number of counties in H-H and L-L agglomeration areas was large and its agglomeration characteristics were obvious; the H-L agglomeration areas started from zero with a small number and scattered distribution. Influence of different factors on rural hollowing was quite different, and the per capita homestead area, the proportion of secondary and tertiary industries, the investment in fixed assets and the per capita net income of farmers were the dominant factors.

Highlights

Rural hollowing is the result of evolution of rural regional system in the process of urbanrural transformation and development and it is a relatively common phenomenon in the process of rapid urbanization (LIU et al 2009; LIU et al 2010)
The gap of rural hollowing among counties widens first and decreased .As a whole, the average index of county hollowness from 2000 to 2013 is between 0.4181 and 0.5073, it means that the hollowing of rural areas in county in the whole province is in the middle level
Spatial pattern of the L-L agglomeration area is in a dynamic change and gradually moving from southern to northern, and the key area of agglomeration is gradually transferred from Zhoukou to Qi county, Tongxu, Kaifeng County which are all belong to Kaifeng city and the middle and lower reaches of Yellow River beach area in North Henanprovince

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Introduction

Rural hollowing is the result of evolution of rural regional system in the process of urbanrural transformation and development and it is a relatively common phenomenon in the process of rapid urbanization (LIU et al 2009; LIU et al 2010). In 2018, The No. document of the Central Committee proposed to implement the strategy of rural revitalization, while one of the typical problems faced by rural development was the problem of rural hollowing It is one of the key issues in the implementation of rural revitalization and a major issue in the research and practice of rural geography that need to be solved urgently to realize the rural hollowing out of China in the new period of the regional differentiation regularity, adapting to the new trend of rural population flow and village change and optimizing rural population, industry and land use space in the process of implementing the strategy of rural revitalization (LIU et al 2009; LIU, 2018)

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