Spatial–Temporal Patterns of Urban–Rural Transformation in Bohai Rim Region

Abstract

The Bohai Rim region is the “third pole” of economic growth in China’s except the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta, and is currently in the stage of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Therefore, an in-depth study of the urban–rural transformation in Bohai Rim region is of great significance to accelerate the development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region and ensuring the coordinated development of China’s eastern, central, western, and northeastern regions. This chapter analyzes the situation of urban–rural transformation and the pattern of coupling and coordination in Bohai Rim region from three aspects of population transformation, industrial transformation and land use transformation, and discusses the types and divisions of urban–rural transformation in Beijing Tianjin Hebei region. Then, the spatiotemporal pattern of urban and rural development in the Bohai Rim Region from 2000 to 2015 is revealed, and the coordination between the two is discussed. With the grid data and geostatistical approaches, the process and pattern of urban–rural transformation are explored, and the spatial centrality, growth and different laws of urban–rural transformation are analyzed. On this basis, the spatial–temporal patterns of urban–rural transformation in Bohai Rim region are depicted from four dimensions of population transformation, land transformation, industrial transformation and social transformation.