New Urban Development Research Articles

Matching degree evaluation between new urbanization and carbon emission system in China: a case study of Anhui Province in China

In order to reveal the relationship between new urbanization and carbon emission to provide reference opinions for the construction of low-carbon urbanization, an evaluation system between new urbanization and carbon emission was constructed. Then their matching degree relationship was analyzed by coupling coordination degree model based on the data from 2012 to 2021 in Anhui Province, and their development trend from 2023 to 2032 was predicted by gray prediction model. The results show that: (1) New urbanization and carbon emission have the co-trend effect, and the consistency of core impact factors is relatively significant. Among them, the level of new urbanization increases from 0.058 in 2012 to 0.699 in 2021 and carbon emission development increases from 0.023 in 2012 to 0.165 in 2021, which both showing an upward trend. Meanwhile, social urbanization and population carbon emission are the core influencing factors. (2) The coupling coordination degree between new urbanization and carbon emission is low, but the synergy trend is optimistic and there is a large room for improvement. Among them, the coupling coordination coefficient of the coupling system rises from 0.136 in 2012 to 1.412 in 2021 (antagonistic phase), and then reaches 0.820 by 2032 (highly coordinated phase) by forecast. It shows that their current development is unbalanced, but the development trend is good, and there is a chance for improvement. This paper deepens the understanding of the logical correlation between new urbanization and carbon emission, and the following views are formed: (1) Low-carbon development is still the mainstream of new urbanization; (2) The coordination development of new urbanization and carbon emission reduction should be strengthened.

Exploring the land ecological security and its spatio-temporal changes in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China, 2000–2020

With the rapid development of new urbanization in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB), it has hindered the sustainable development of land resources and posed a great threat to the regional land ecological security (LES). So, it is of great significance to explore the spatiotemporal evolution, and convergence characteristics of LES in the YREB. In this study, we chose the panel data of 11 provinces in the YREB from 2000 to 2020 to measure and analyze the levels of LES, the degree of regional differences, the sources of those differences, and the distribution dynamics using the entropy weight method, the Dagum Gini coefficient and the three-dimensional kernel density estimation method. The study also combines the coefficient of variation and a spatial convergence model to examine the convergence characteristics of LES in the context of new urbanization in the YREB. The results indicate that the levels of LES in the YREB and its three main regions (upstream, midstream, and downstream) are on an upward trend, showing a clear spatial pattern (high in the middle and low in the east and west), and that the absolute differences are decreasing. No polarization is evident, and the differences between the regions are the primary source of overall differences. The new urbanization has a significant positive effect on the LES of YREB and three regions. These results have a number of practical implications for the provinces of the YREB, which should take full account of their resources and environmental conditions, introduce land ecology protection policies tailored to local conditions, actively promote the synergistic management of the land ecology of the upstream, midstream, and downstream regions, and provide quantitative support for the coordinated promotion of new urbanization and the land ecological protection.

How Does the Integration of Cultural Tourism Industry Affect Rural Revitalization? The Mediating Effect of New Urbanization

The development and integration of industries have promoted economic growth and gradually become an important perspective to understand the country’s modernized construction. The cultural industry and the tourism industry are naturally coupled, which is an important part of the process of industrial integration. In addition, the country’s drive towards modernization needs to improve the overall level of industrial integration, and rural revitalization is one of the key links to this. Therefore, to explore the relationship between the integration of cultural tourism industry and rural revitalization, this study collected the panel data of 31 provincial-level regions in China from 2005 to 2021. Based on the entropy method and the coupling coordination degree model, this study constructs an evaluation index system, including cultural industry, tourism industry, the integration of cultural tourism industry, new urbanization, and rural revitalization, and obtains the comprehensive scores of each. Furthermore, the study discusses the path selection and future development direction of rural revitalization through the integration of a cultural tourism industry. The conclusions are drawn as follows: (1) The development of the cultural and tourism industries can significantly promote the development of new urbanization and rural revitalization; (2) the integration of cultural tourism industry has a positive effect on rural revitalization; (3) new urbanization plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between the integration of cultural tourism industry and rural revitalization; (4) new urbanization has a masking effect on the influence of the integration of cultural tourism industry on rural revitalization; and (5) the extent of these effects varies by region. Finally, this study not only deepens the understanding of rural revitalization from the perspective of industrial development and integration, but also provides an empirical basis for the country, local governments, and enterprises to promote rural revitalization.

Research on the Coordinated Development of Technological Innovation,Talent Agglomeration, and New Urbanization in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

In the context of high-quality development, the development paradigm of integrating scientific and technological innovation, talent agglomeration, and new-type urbanization has become a key issue in regional development. Taking the Yangtze River Economic Belt as an example, this paper analyzes the interaction mechanism of the three systems and constructs an evaluation index system from the perspective of regional high-quality development. This paper combined entropy weight TOPSIS, coupling coordination degree model, and Gini coefficient to explore the spatial and temporal characteristics and regional differences of system coupling coordination. The evolution trend of the coupling coordination type is predicted by the Markov chain model. The research shows that: (1) The development index of the three major systems in the Yangtze River Economic Belt is on the rise, and the coupling coordination degree is in the running-in stage as a whole. The resistance restricting the coupling coordination degree is mainly the lag of scientific and technological innovation in the upstream, and the lag of talent gathering in the middle and downstream. ( 2) The coupling coordination degree of the three systems has obvious spatial agglomeration characteristics, showing a high level in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and a low level in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. (3) The gap of the coupling coordination degree of the three systems in the whole Yangtze River Economic Belt is gradually narrowing, and the large development gap among different regions is still the main cause of the Gini coefficient of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. (4) There is a location difference in the probability of coupling coordination level transfer, and the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River will still be in the antagonistic or running-in stage in the next stage, while the lower reaches of the Yangtze River will be in the coordination stage. The research conclusions provide scientific references for the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

Coupling coordination of new urbanization in Chinese urban agglomeration-characteristics and driving factors.

The coordinated development of new urbanization (NU) in urban agglomerations (UAs) is key for promoting sustainable urban development and the way to achieve Chinese-style modernization. Based on the mechanisms of coupling and coordination of NU, the internal subsystem coupling coordination of NU was deconstructed into five dimensions-economic, population, land, social, and ecological. Using 200 cities in 19 Chinese UAs areas, the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of the coupling coordination degree of NU (CCDNU) were analyzed, and the driving factors were analyzed from both spatial spillover effect and stratification heterogeneity. The results are as follows: (1) CCDNU has increased from moderate disorder to barely coordinated, exhibiting a spatial distribution of a higher CCDNU in the east and lower CCDNU in the west with a positive global spatial autocorrelation feature; (2) economic drive, population concentration, spatial carrying capacity, and environmental quality play facilitating roles in the CCDNU of the study region, while the spatial carrying capacity, quality of life, and environmental quality inhibit the CCDNU of neighboring regions. From the decomposition of long- and short-term effects, both direct and indirect effects of driving factors were found to accumulate significantly over time. In addition, the model results were robust after replacing the geographic distance weight matrix and excluding the extreme values; (3) the spatial carrying capacity, population concentration, and economic drive are the dominant factors affecting the CCDNU in China. The dominant driving factors of are different in different regions. Meanwhile, the interaction detection shows that the interaction of each driver exhibits a two-factor enhancement or non-linear enhancement. Based on these results, corresponding policies are recommended.

Collaborative optimization method of the regional integrated energy system for energy cascade utilization

Energy is an important resource, and its main reserves are obviously insufficient compared with consumption. The energy structure is mainly dominated by fossil energy. The pollution emissions from energy utilization are becoming more and more serious. The energy problem has seriously affected the development of new urbanization. This paper studies the optimal scheduling problem of typical urban integrated energy systems participating in different demand response methods. Based on the traditional power demand response model, the demand response model is constructed according to the equivalent thermal parameters. Its model can optimize the electricity and gas load curves and realize the balance of electricity, heat, and gas in an economical and environmentally friendly way. It can also reduce the total cost of the economic operation of the system and reduce the overall carbon emissions of the system. Through the optimization and regulation of multi-type “source-storage-load”, multi-time scale, and multi-objective joint for the distributed thermal power, the matching of thermal and electric hybrid energy and the peak and valley of the power grid can be realized.

Study on the Coordinated Development of New Urbanization and Industrial Structure in Weinan City

The development and quality of new urbanization cannot be achieved without the support of various subsystems within the city, and the industrial structure, that is, is an important force to promote the development of new urbanization, and the interaction relationship between the two is an important issue in realistic development. By constructing the quality evaluation system of new urbanization and industrial structure evaluation system of Weinan City, the quality of urbanization and industrial structure of Weinan City from 2012 to 2021 are measured and evaluated objectively. The data show that the quality of new urbanization and industrial structure of Weinan City from 2012 to 2021 have been well developed, and the coupled coordination relationship between them is high-quality coordination but there is a decreasing trend.

Research on the impact of China's new urbanization on industrial water utilization efficiency - based on spatial spillover effects and threshold characteristics.

To explore the impact of new urbanization development on industrial water utilization efficiency, the epsilon-based measure model and the entropy method were used to calculate the industrial water utilization efficiency and the development of new urbanization based on the panel data of 30 provincial cities in China from 2011 to 2020. Then the spatial Durbin and the panel threshold models were constructed to explore the spatial spillover and threshold effects of new urbanization development on industrial water utilization efficiency. The results show that there are large regional differences in the development of new urbanization and industrial water utilization efficiency. New urbanization development has a positive spillover effects on the improvement of industrial water efficiency. The promotion effect of new urbanization development on industrial water efficiency is affected by the level of new urbanization development, thus showing different results. According to the findings, it is recommended that local governments at all levels should increase their efforts to build new urbanization. And boost high-level and high-quality development of towns and cities while promoting the rationalization of industrial structure and optimizing resource allocation, thereby improving the efficiency of industrial water utilization.

Research on the Coordinated Development of Logistics Industry and New Urbanization in Anhui Province

The coordinated development of logistics industry and new urbanization can effectively promote their development and improve the imbalance between logistics industry and new urbanization in Anhui Province. This paper collects the data on the development level of logistics industry and the construction level of new urbanization in Anhui Province from 2015 to 2021, uses the entropy weight method to process the data and establishes a coupling coordination model to study the coupling coordination of the two, so as to evaluate the coordinated development level of urbanization development and logistics industry in Anhui Province. Through the analysis results, the following conclusions can be drawn: although the coordination degree between logistics industry and new urbanization in Anhui Province has been greatly improved in recent years, the development of logistics industry lags behind the new urbanization logistics industry and provides insufficient power for the development of new urbanization. In view of this, the paper finally proposes a series of measures to promote the coordinated development of logistics industry and new urbanization in Anhui Province.

Research on Coupled and Coordinated Development of New Urbanization and Ecological Environment

Research on Coupled and Coordinated Development of New Urbanization and Ecological Environment

Spatiotemporal differentiation characteristics and influencing factors of coupling coordinated development of rural revitalization and new urbanization at the county level in Gansu province

Spatiotemporal differentiation characteristics and influencing factors of coupling coordinated development of rural revitalization and new urbanization at the county level in Gansu province

Research on Coupling Coordination of China’s New-Type Urbanization and Urban Resilience—Taking Yangtze River Economic Belt as an Example

The coupled and coordinated development of urban resilience and new urbanization is an important guarantee for the realization of urban security and sustainable development. This paper first constructs an evaluation index of urban resilience and new urbanization and uses the entropy method to clarify the weights. Second, the coupling coordination degree model is used to measure the spatiotemporal differentiation characteristics of the coupling coordinated development of urban resilience and new urbanization in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2005 to 2019. The key influencing factors of the coupling coordination are analyzed using geodetectors. The results show the following. (1) The urban resilience of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has continued to improve, showing a stepwise distribution pattern of “high in the east and low in the west” in space. The overall development of new urbanization is at a medium–high level, with high levels concentrated in the eastern coastal cities. (2) The degree of spatial coupling and coordination between urban resilience and new urbanization is increasing year by year, and there is significant spatial heterogeneity, showing the pattern of “high in the east and low in the west, high in the center and low in the surrounding areas”, and the type of lag is mostly urban resilience lag in new urbanization. (3) Endogenous power, external power, government power and market power interact to jointly promote the development of coupling coordination. The comprehensive effect of government power and other driving forces is the key mechanism for improving spatial coupling coordination.

Evaluation, Recognition and Implications of Urban–Rural Integration Development: A Township-Level Analysis of Hanchuan City in Wuhan Metropolitan Area

China has achieved success in implementing the rural revitalization strategy and promoting the development of new urbanization. However, there are still many problems in the research and implementation on urban–rural integration development, such as insufficient research at the township level, unclear recognition of development patterns, and disconnection from land-use planning. Therefore, taking Hanchuan city in the Wuhan metropolitan area as a case study, this research constructs a comprehensive evaluation system of urban–rural integration development based on both on the current and potential level of development, and identifies the spatial characteristics and patterns in the study area. This study found that: (1) The comprehensive evaluation result of urban–rural integration development in Hanchuan City shows that a high level of development units are mainly distributed in the northeast and southwest, and gradually decreases from the northeast and southwest, indicating that towns in the central area are relatively weakly driven by the radiation of the surrounding growth poles. (2) Xiannvshan Street, Makou Town, Chenhu Town, and Xinyan Town with the highest comprehensive evaluation values were selected as the centers of urban–rural integration development in four directions. (3) Four typical patterns of urban–rural integration development, which are town gathering, agro-tourism interaction, industry-trade driven, and agricultural service, are derived by the gravity model and classification assignment method according to their respective centers. (4) According to the urban–rural integration development patterns, land-use strategies such as centralization for promoting linkage level of towns, differentiation for arranging various resources and infrastructures, and demonstration for optimization of experience to the whole area are proposed in a targeted manner. This study has important implications for the preparation and implementation of urban–rural integration development and provides effective planning guidance for promoting social equity and accessibility of facilities in the metropolitan area.

County Urbanization and Industrial Reconstruction under the Background of Rural Revitalization

With the change of the main social contradictions in our country, the development between urban and rural areas has gradually become an important issue to be solved urgently. Since the reform and opening up, China has always attached great importance to rural development, and has always regarded how to deal with the "three rural issues" as the focus of the work of the party and the state. In the long run, the new urbanization, together with it, will accomplish the integration of urban and rural development, relying not only on the central city, but also on the town as the link between urban and rural areas. It points out the direction and path for the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and makes it clear that the general requirements of rural revitalization strategy are industrial prosperity, ecological livability, civilized rural style, effective governance and rich life, among which industrial prosperity is the foundation and key of rural revitalization. Therefore, it is of great value to explore the coupling and coordination between rural revitalization and new urbanization. This paper uses national data to build a comprehensive FGLS model. The panel regression results show that: the level of technological development, the level of regional transportation, the level of non-agricultural industry development, income driven, consumption driven, and the equalization of public services have a positive impact on the coordination of rural revitalization and new urbanization in China. Through the above research, this paper puts forward countermeasures and suggestions for the coordinated development of rural revitalization and new urbanization in China.

Urbanization Construction, Economic Growth and Residents’ Happiness in Jiangsu Province

Under the background of common prosperity, the development of new urbanization should take urban agglomeration as the main body and residents’ happiness as the guide, and build a people-oriented urbanization structure system. Based on the China City Statistical Yearbook and China Labor-force Dynamics Survey data, this paper investigates the impact mechanism of the development of new urbanization and the economic status of residents on residents’ happiness. The results show that urbanization and residents’ economic status can promote residents’ happiness, and large cities have a greater sense of belonging, while the residents who live in medium-sized urban areas have insufficient happiness. Given the research results, the process of urbanization development, Jiangsu should build a rational urban scale and coordinate regional economic growth.

Research on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of Building a Beautiful Countryside Under the New Urbanization

In order to implement the “Rural Revitalization” policy and speed up the construction of beautiful villages, the development of new urbanization must be carried out to promote the coordinated development of rural agricultural modernization and industrial informatization. In order to explore an effective path for the construction of beautiful villages in the context of new urbanization, this study proposes several strategic ways for the construction by analyzing the overall relationship between new urbanization and the construction of beautiful villages as well as the current situation of the construction of beautiful villages in the context of urbanization, hoping to provide reference and guidance for the exploration of the rural revitalization strategy implementation.

Evaluation Model Construction of Competitiveness of Sports Tourism Characteristic Towns through IoT Applications

As the development of sports industry, new business type is also a breakthrough in the development of new urbanization, and it will become a new economic point to promote economic development in the future. In this paper, the “Jewel” model is utilized to dissect the records that influence the center competitiveness of humble communities with sports characteristics, and the loads of the files are examined, and the principal component analysis (PAC) is utilized to build the evaluation model of the center competitiveness of unassuming communities. Finally, a “factor model” is constructed for evaluation. Through the quantitative analysis of the influencing factors, the index system is formed, which is composed of 6 first-level indicators, 23 second-level indicators, and 45 third-level indicators, including environmental resources, characteristic industry competitiveness, infrastructure competitiveness, overall layout, government support, and funding sources. Furthermore, this carries on the weight examination to the list, as per the investigation result advances the idea for the future improvement of the games trademark town, and gives the premise to the improvement of the games trademark town.

Coupling Coordination Analysis of New Urbanization and Urban Transportation in Zhejiang Province

At present, there are relatively few studies on the coupling coordination analysis of new urbanization and urban transportation. This paper takes 11 preface-level cities in Zhejiang Province as the research object and analyses the new urbanization and urban transportation development status of each city in 2010, 2015, and 2020 through the construction of the index system. In addition, the paper uses the entropy method and the coupling coordination model to evaluate their coupling coordination relationship. The results show that: (1) The new urbanization has developed from Hangzhou as the single core (2010) to the pattern of Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Zhoushan as the dual-core + the “Quzhou-Lishui-Wenzhou-Taizhou” high-value belt in the south (2020), which spatially shows a trend of high in the north and low in the south. (2) Urban transportation has always centralized in Zhoushan as the single core, with the overall distribution high in the north and low in the south. (3) At the three time periods, the coordination degree of new urbanization and urban transportation in all preference-level cities is almost 0.4 and above, which exceeds the level of antagonistic equilibrium (0-0.2), which is divided into four categories, namely, low, medium, high, and coordinated equilibrium levels. Most of the preface-level cities are in medium and high equilibrium. Hangzhou (0.707) and Zhoushan (0.800) are high-value representations of coordinated equilibrium, while Jinhua (0.473) and Lishui (0.439) are typically low in the value of low-grade equilibrium. (4) The development of new urbanization and urban transportation as well as their coupling coordination relationship are related to urban positioning and geographical location. The research has a constructive role in evaluating the new urbanization and urban transportation of the cities in Zhejiang, which also makes a reference on how to improve the quality of coordination based on the status quo of coupling coordination and the positioning of urban development.

What is the spatiotemporal relationship between urbanization and ecosystem services? A case from 110 cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

Rapid urbanization has altered landscape patterns and ecological functions, causing a decline in ecosystem service and generating many ecological and environmental issues. Studying the spatiotemporal interaction between urbanization and ecosystem service (ES) can provide effective supports for regional sustainability and policy formulation. This research utilizes the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) as a case to analyze the spatiotemporal interaction between multi-urbanization indicators and multi-ESs over a large-scale region. The results show that the urbanization process in the YREB evolves from a rapidly growing state to a steady state with a slower rise. The urbanization level of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration is relatively higher than the other regions. The distribution pattern of urbanization shows an overall characteristic of lower urbanization in the west and higher in the east. From 2009 to 2016, ecosystem service value (ESV) in the YREB decreased first and then increased, ESV in 2016 showed a reduction of 12.768 billion yuan compared with the 2009 level. ESV increases gradually from highly urbanized areas to those with lower levels of urbanization. Areas with high ESV levels are distributed at the middle reaches of YREB. There is a U-shaped curve relationship between urbanization and ESV, the ESV sharply increased when the urbanization index exceeded 0.6 in 2012. Land urbanization has the greatest impact on ESV among the four subtypes of urbanization indicators. Urbanization and ESV show the synergy relationship mostly in the eastern region, accounting for 18.18% of the total 110 cities. By contrast, they present the trade-off relationship in northern, southern and central regions, occupying 47.27% of the total observations. This study is helpful to provide scientific suggestions regarding the development of new urbanization, the protection of ESV, and the issue of how to achieve synergistic and sustainable development between them.

Evolution Characteristics of New Urbanization in the Provincial Capital Cities of Western China

Urbanization is both a global concept and a project that is connected with all aspects of the society. China’s new urbanization process has been attracting wide attention internationally due to its rapid development and rich content. This new urbanization has significant impacts on hundreds of millions of people’s lives, as well as global wellbeing. Although Western China has always been in a relatively weak state of development when compared to the other parts of China, it has a large area and a significant amount of people, which all require a reasonable urbanization method. To show the development level of new urbanization in western China, we constructed an evaluation system and used entropy and weighted summation methods to get the development scores. We then obtained the correlation coefficient with the partial correlation analysis method. The results indicate that: 1) economic, land, and social urbanization are significant influencing factors; 2) temporal and spatial differences were significant during the 15-year period in these 11 cities; 3) among the factor layers, the score of social urbanization fluctuated the most, ecological civilization and economic urbanization showed an upward trend, and population urbanization and land urbanization have been relatively stable in the last few years; 4) for the western capitals, although economic urbanization and ecological civilization have achieved coordinated development in recent years, the endogenous power of the economy still needs to be tapped, and ecological development is facing greater pressure. Meanwhile the expansion of urban land has been too fast to respond well to population growth, which also damages the urban ecosystem to a certain extent. We conclude that it is necessary to realize the coordinated development of different factors in new urbanization, promote new urbanization, while considering the actual needs of the city and also developing the rural areas. This study can provide decision support for the development of new urbanization in the western region.