New Urban Development Research Articles

Uncoordinated Coupling Assessment of New Urbanization and Ecological Carrying Capacity in the Yellow River Basin.

Under the restriction of the national “double carbon” goal, how to realize the coordination between urbanization and low-carbon development in the Yellow River Basin is a problem worthy of attention. In this paper, a new urbanization and ecological carrying capacity evaluation index system is established to evaluate the new urbanization level and ecological carrying capacity of the Yellow River Basin. On this basis, the uncoordinated coupling level of new urbanization and ecological carrying capacity in the Yellow River Basin is measured by using the improved uncoordinated coupling model, and its temporal and spatial characteristics and internal impact mechanism are analyzed. The study shows that the new urbanization and ecological carrying capacity of the Yellow River Basin has a benign development trend as a whole. Shandong province belongs to the low-level uncoordinated coupling type; Gansu Province and Qinghai Province belong to the running-in uncoordinated type; and Shanxi Province, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shaanxi Province, and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region belong to the antagonistic uncoordinated coupling type. The uncoordinated coupling degree between new urbanization and ecological carrying capacity in the Yellow River Basin has a spatial interaction effect. It presents a low-level cluster centered on Shaanxi Province and Shandong Province and a high-level cluster centered on Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. From the perspective of the internal main impact mechanism, water resources have a two-way impact on the development of the two systems of new urbanization and ecological carrying capacity; the number of permanent residents and the level of scientific and technological investment have a one-way impact on the process of new urbanization; and the green coverage rate of built-up areas has a one-way impact on the development of ecological carrying capacity. The main contributions of this paper are as follows. First, the evaluation index system of new urbanization and ecological carrying capacity has been improved in combination with the new development concept. The evaluation of new urbanization by this index system is more in line with the current national requirements for high-quality development. Second, the impact of potential resources and human regulation has been added to the traditional ecological carrying capacity evaluation index system, and the evaluation of ecological carrying capacity by this index system is more in line with reality. Thirdly, taking the time effect into account, an improved uncoordinated coupling method is proposed. Using this method to evaluate the relationship between systems is conducive to bringing the dynamic relationship within the system into the evaluation system, which is more in line with the reality of system changes. Fourth, from the perspective of problem diagnosis, research on the relationship between new urbanization and ecological carrying capacity will help to find the internal mechanism that affects the coordinated development of new urbanization and ecological carrying capacity in the Yellow River Basin. This method is universal for exploring the internal influence mechanism of the relationship between systems.

Supporting Paths for the Development of New Urbanization in Shaanxi Province Based on Fast Fourier Transform

Since the advent of modern society, urbanization has developed significantly all over the world, especially in developing countries with large scale and good economy. However, urbanization research is often not well executed due to problems such as unpredictable and difficult to capture due to the huge amount of data. In order to be able to adapt measures to local conditions and provide classified guidance when implementing the urbanization strategy, this study takes China’s Shaanxi Province as an example to deeply explore the new problems and countermeasures faced by urbanization in the context of entering an urban society. It adopts the method of fast Fourier transform and analyzes the urbanization of Shaanxi Province. It also conducts experimental research on the industrial factors that promote its urbanization, and the results show that when the proportion of nonagricultural industry added value increases by 1 percentage point, the urbanization level of Shaanxi will increase by about 0.24 percentage points. When other factors remain unchanged, when the per capita income gap between urban and rural residents increases by 100 yuan, the urbanization level of Shaanxi will increase by 0.152 percentage points. Therefore, in order to promote the development of new urbanization in Shaanxi, Shaanxi should focus on the development of nonagricultural industries, especially the tertiary industry.

Dynamic Relationship Between Water Resources and New Urbanization Based on a Vector Autoregressive Model: A Case Study of Hebei Province, China

Overly rapid urban expansion in the past has significantly changed water resources, resulting in an imbalance between water resources and the sustainable development of new urbanization. To facilitate the sustainable development and utilization of water resources and promote the high-quality development of new urbanization, this study constructs evaluation index systems for water resources and new urbanization. The analytic hierarchy process, entropy method and projection pursuit method are used to determine the weight of each index, and Hebei Province is taken as an example for empirical analysis. The results indicate an upward trend for water resources in Hebei during the 2000–2019 period, while the water resources support capacity and water environmental pollution showed trends of gradual improvement but changed greatly, the water ecological carrying capacity gradually increased, and the negative impact of water disaster damage on the comprehensive situation of regional water resources gradually increased. Meanwhile, a qualitative breakthrough has been made in the development of new urbanization. Based on their evaluation results data, the long-term equilibrium relationship between water resources and new urbanization as well as the dynamics are empirically analyzed using a vector autoregressive model with a variable cointegration test, generalized impulse responses, and a decomposition prediction method using evaluation result data for the 2000–2019 period. There is indeed a supporting and inhibiting dynamic relationship between new urbanization and water resources as well as its components. At the early stage of urbanization, the endowment of water resources, the background value of the water environment, the ecological capacity of water and man-made water disasters were not fully considered, which led to the sharp contradiction between water resources and new urbanization. For a period, the decline in water resource support capacity and serious water environmental pollution have gradually become important factors limiting new urbanization in Hebei, and the constraining effects of the reduced water ecological carrying capacity and water disaster damage have gradually decreased. For future development, decision makers in Hebei should take measures such as adjusting the economic growth mode, improving resource utilization efficiency and technical level, and fully considering the positive role of new urbanization in promoting water resources and water environments. At the same time, Hebei Province should reduce the rate of water resource consumption by strengthening water conservation measures, optimizing the water utilization structure, and increasing investments in water pollution prevention and control to enhance the stability of water environments to realize the coordinated development of water resources and new urbanization.

Evaluation and Analysis of High-Quality Development of New Urbanization Based on Intelligent Computing

Urbanization construction is an important part of China’s economic development. New urbanization is a new development direction proposed by China in order to adapt to social development. China’s urbanization construction must be changed. The construction of new urbanization is not only committed to expanding the scale of cities and towns but also promotes the industrial upgrading of cities and towns and improves the efficiency of urban production to meet the needs of economic growth. Under China’s high-quality economic development model, various problems of ecological environment pollution and low productivity have emerged. New urbanization has become an effective strategy to promote high-quality economic development. The research results of this paper show that (1) the level of coordinated development among urbanization systems is low, and the population agglomeration and industrial economic development, urban land resource utilization, urban public welfare development, and urban ecological environment development are not coordinated during the process of population urbanization, it is necessary to strengthen the development capacity of the economy, space, society, and green urbanization, and only the coordinated development of various systems can promote the high-quality development of urbanization. (2) From 2006 to 2017, the urbanization development coefficient of the five northwestern provinces and regions has increased year by year, and the high-quality development level of urbanization has gradually increased. Except for the urbanization system development coefficient of urbanization from 2016 to 2017, which was higher than 0.3 and was in a relatively imbalanced stage, the coefficients of the other provinces were all lower than 0.2 in each year, which was in a highly imbalanced stage. (3) The loss value of the intelligent computing development evaluation model proposed in the article is the lowest among the detection models. When the number of iterations is 20, the final loss value of the article is 0.1. With the increase in the number of iterations, the accuracy rate is basically in a stable growth state, when the number of iterations is 20, and the accuracy rate reaches a peak value of 99%, which is close to 100%. The experimental results can also show that the performance of the intelligent computing development evaluation model structure is better than the evaluation of high-quality urbanization development.

How does green technology innovation affect urbanization? An empirical study from provinces of China.

The construction of new-type urbanization with the theme of innovation, green, and smart development is becoming the endogenous driving force of China's economic transformation and upgrading, and green technological innovation is a key factor in cracking the problems of development motivation and environmental constraints in urbanization construction. This paper investigates the impact of green technology innovation on urbanization based on a panel dataset covering 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2019. First, we use the entropy method and the super-efficiency DEA method to measure the level of urbanization and green technology innovation, respectively. Moreover, on this basis, we use panel regression model and FGLS model to estimate the direct impact of green technological innovation on urbanization and its three dimensions-population urbanization, industrial urbanization, and ecological urbanization. Then, the mediating effect model is used to further study the indirect impact of green technological innovation on urbanization. The results indicate that green technological innovation is the most effective way to promote the development of new urbanization currently. In addition, green technology innovation can indirectly affect urbanization through the effects of foreign capital, energy consumption and information development, while the effect of industrial structure optimization effects is not significant. Finally, some policy suggestions are discussed to better promote the development of urbanization in China.

New urbanization, income gap between urban and rural areas and economic growth-empirical analysis based on the Yangtze River Delta region

Under the current background of common prosperity, studying the dynamic relationship between the new urbanization, urban-rural income gap and economic growth in the Yangtze River Delta is conducive to the coordinated and integrated development of our country. Based on the relevant data of the Yangtze River Delta from 2001 to 2020, the VECM model is used for impulse response and variance decomposition analysis. The results show that economic growth significantly affects the development of new urbanization; The impact of new urbanization and economic growth on urban-rural income gap is heterogeneous; Both have a positive impact on economic growth, but the new urbanization has a stronger role in promoting economic growth.

Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Ethnic Traditional Villages Based on Schema Language

With the rapid development of new rural construction, industrialization and urbanization in recent years, traditional villages in many areas appear to be hollowing out, or replaced by modern elements, and the number of traditional villages is decreasing. Through the analysis of the spatial layout of Zhagana Village, it is found that in the process of adapting to the needs of life and natural environment, the elements and spatial structure of traditional villages have been continuously modified under the joint influence of human and natural factors. The spatial layout of traditional villages shows very high consistency, integrity and adaptability. It provides guarantee for the planning and protection of village landscape and sustainable development of villages.

Temporal and Spatial Differentiation in Urban Resilience and Its Influencing Factors in Henan Province

Building resilient cities is playing an increasingly important role in enhancing urban safety and promoting sustainable urban development. However, few scholars pay attention to urban resilience in inland provinces. Choosing Henan Province, as it is a typical representative of China’s major inland economic provinces, has practical guiding significance. This study aims to provide a systematic indicator system and evaluation tool to measure the cuity’s resilience level. Therefore, based on a multidimensional perspective, this paper dissects the urban resilience spatial and temporal evolution characteristics of 18 Henan Province cities with the entropy method, Thiel index, and ESDA (Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis) and explores influencing factors with a spatial econometric model. The main results are as follows: (1) the overall resilience in Henan Province continuously grows, and the resilience level of the Zhengzhou metropolitan area is the highest. In the urban resilience subsystem, economic and social resilience notably drive urban resilience improvement in Henan Province. (2) The spatial difference of urban resilience has been significantly reduced, but the inner metropolitan area presents the characteristics of “core–periphery”. Urban resilience presents a positive spatial correlation, and local spatial agglomeration is relatively stable. (3) Under the state of spatial interaction, urbanization rate, administrative, innovation, market, and industrial structure factors all have significant direct effects and spatial spillover effects on overall resilience, but openness exerts downward pressure on local resilience. (4) On this basis, strategies have been proposed to continuously promote the development of new urbanization, improve the regional coordinated development mechanism, increase market activity, optimize the environment for scientific and educational innovation, and promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure. The approach taken in this research may also be useful for developing urban resilience assessment tools in other central plains cities as well as in other cities in the interior of the world with similar conditions.

Spatio-Temporal Evolution Characteristics and Spatial Interaction Spillover Effects of New-Urbanization and Green Land Utilization Efficiency

In the context of vigorously promoting new-urbanization, effectively improving the green use efficiency of urban land is an inevitable requirement to achieve high-quality economic and social development. Based on the panel data from 2011 to 2018 of 297 prefecture-level and above cities in China, this paper uses the entropy weight method and the super-efficient SBM-GML model to estimate the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of new-urbanization and urban green land utilization efficiency. Then, the spatial simultaneous-equation and the generalized spatial three-stage least square method (GS3SLS) are employed to empirically investigate the spatial interaction spillover effects between the new-urbanization and the green land utilization efficiency. The results indicate that: (1) The level of new-urbanization and the green land utilization efficiency in Chinese cities have common and complex temporal and spatial dynamic evolution characteristics. (2) There are mutual inhibition effects between new-urbanization and green land utilization efficiency, and the level of new-urbanization is in a comparatively leading role. (3) Both the level of new-urbanization and green land utilization efficiency have obvious spatial spillover effects. (4) The level of new-urbanization of surrounding regions promotes the green land utilization efficiency of local regions, and the improvement of the green land utilization efficiency of surrounding regions also promotes the level of new-urbanization of local regions. As environmental pressure increasingly becomes a constraint on urban development, these findings are helpful to clarify the regional relationship between urban construction and green development and promote the harmonious development of new-urbanization and green land utilization efficiency.

Research on Evaluation of Sustainable Development of New Urbanization from the Perspective of Urban Agglomeration under the Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets

In this study, considering the traditional geometric operation laws and Pythagorean fuzzy information, we propose a variety of new distance measures of Pythagorean fuzzy sets such as generalized Pythagorean fuzzy geometric distance (GPFGD) measures and generalized Pythagorean fuzzy weighted geometric distance (GPFWGD) measures. Besides, some special issues including Hamming distance, Euclidean distance, and Hausdorff distance of these raised geometric distance measures are investigated. To testify the valid of these new presented distance measures, we build a decision-making model illustrated by a mathematical calculation example to evaluate the sustainable development of new urbanization from the perspective of urban agglomeration using Pythagorean fuzzy information.

Coupling analysis of urbanization and ecological total factor energy efficiency —— A case study from Hebei province in China

Under the background of rapid urbanization, the contradictions among urbanization construction, resource consumption and ecological environment become increasingly prominent. Research on Comprehensive Urbanization Level (CUL) and Ecological Total Factor Energy Efficiency (ETFEE) is beneficial to the development of new urbanization and ecological protection. Under the basis of related researches, the urbanization evaluation system is constructed and the CUL is measured from four dimensions: population, economy, society and space. The ETFEE is calculated by a SBM-Undesirable model, and the Coupling Coordination Degree (CCD) model is established to calculate the CCD between CUL and ETFEE. The findings show that: (1) the CUL from high to low is as follows: eastern Hebei, central Hebei, northern Hebei and southern Hebei, and there is still room for improvement in the urbanization of each region; (2) ETFEE values of the cities show overall upward trends; (3) the CCD is in transition from a low-moderate coupling stage to a moderate-high one. This study has certain reference value for decision-makers to formulate related policies of urbanization and energy efficiency.

Research on the Marketization of Urban and Rural Factors and the Coordinated Development of Urban and Rural Industries and Regions

At present, China is facing the problem of breaking down the system and institutional obstacles that hinder the free flow of factors. The development of new urbanization and urban and rural industries depends on the independent flow, efficient and fair allocation of factor markets; market-oriented allocation of factors is the development and core issue of new urbanization; the market plays a decisive role in the allocation of factor resources. On this basis, it is of great importance to put forward suggestions to further promote the free flow of factors and accelerate the development of new urbanization.

The Spatial Effect of Administrative Division on Land-Use Intensity

Land-use intensity (LUI) is one of the most direct manifestations of regional land use efficiency. The study of cross-administrative LUI in urban agglomerations is of great importance for the sustainable development of land, new urbanization, and territorial spatial planning. In this study, the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in China was used as the case study area to explore the spatial spillover effect through the administrative division, underlying driving mechanism, and spatial interactions or constraints of LUI. First, LUI was measured using the index of the proportion of construction land to the total area of the administrative region. Second, the adjacency relationship of the county-level administrative units was identified on the basis of the queen-type adjacency criterion under the county-level administrative division system. Thereafter, spatial weight matrix for spatial modeling was constructed. Last, a spatial model using the “Spatial adjacency matrix” was devised to examine the influencing factors and the potential spatial interactions or constraints of administrative units. Results revealed that the level of LUI of different county-level administrative units were quite different, and the gap of LUI among county-level administrative units widened from 2010 to 2017. The fixed asset investment per land (FAIL), gross domestic product per capital (PGDP), and proportion of tertiary sector (PTS) are the driving factors of LUI. County-level administrative units not only had a significant and increasing spatial interaction effect based on the relationship of cooperation, but also had an influence of restraint mutually which was caused by the competition. The direct spatial spillover effect was remarkable. In the future, the effect of interaction among administrative units under the administrative division should be considered to promote the reasonable use and optimal layout of regional urban land to realize the optimal allocation of land resources.

Analysis on the Incentive Policy of Traditional Construction Model and Prefabricated Construction Model Based on Evolutionary Game Theory

The development of prefabricated construction model is a major change in construction production methods. It is an important measure to promote supply-side structural reform and the development of new urbanization. It is conducive to saving resources and energy consumption, reducing construction pollution, shortening construction period and improving engineering quality and safety. It is also conducive to promoting the deep integration of the construction industry and infornatization industrialization, cultivating new industries, and promoting the resolution of excess capacity. In the promotion and implementation of this model, the positive incentives given by government departments are the compass to guide the steady progress of this model. This article analyzes the transmission mechanism of the incentive policy of the prefabricated construction model in China in this behavior based on evolutionary game theory, and puts forward some suggestions on how to improve China’s prefabricated construction model policy system.

Coupling and coordinated development of new urbanization and agro-ecological environment in China

Agricultural ecological environment conservation is a major strategic mission for the sustainable development of China's agriculture and rural areas at present. Therefore, it is of great significance to examine the coupling and coordination relationship between new urbanization and the agro-ecological environment, and, accordingly, to establish China's sustainable agro-economic development model. However, this topic has not been adequately addressed in previous studies. To fill this gap, this study detailed an empirical investigation into the spatio-temporal differentiation of and influencing factors on the coupling and coordinated development of new urbanization and the agricultural ecological environment in China. First, aided by spatial analysis methods, a detailed analysis of the spatio-temporal patterns and dynamics of the coupling and coordinated development of new urbanization and the agro-ecological environment was conducted. The driving factors were quantitatively examined using the random panel Tobit model and the panel data modeling technique. The results indicate that the coupling degree between China's new urbanization and the agro-ecological environment ranges from 0.30 to 0.50, which is in the antagonistic stage. The degree of coupling and coordination is between 0.39 and 0.59, basically on the verge of imbalance and reluctant coordination. Most provinces lag behind in new urbanization. Panel data analysis demonstrates financial support for agriculture, rural economic development, environmental pollution control capabilities, and government capabilities significantly impacting the degree of coupling and coordination between China's new urbanization and the agro-ecological environment. Among them, financial support for agriculture and industrialization has different effects on the degree of coupling and coordination between the eastern and midwestern regions. Based on the findings of this study, a series of policy suggestions for improving China's new urbanization and agro-ecological environment is proposed.

Study on coupling of new urbanization and environmental quality in Qinghai Province

This paper selects the index data of population, economy and space from 2000 to 2019, establishes an evaluation index system for the level of new urbanization and environmental quality in Qinghai Province, studies the coordination between new urbanization and environmental quality in Qinghai Province by establishing a coupling coordination model, and puts forward countermeasures and suggestions for the coordinated development of new urbanization and environmental quality in Qinghai Province.

The Impact of Technological Innovation and Industrial Structure Upgrading on New Urbanization: An Empirical Analysis Based on Panel Quantile Regression

For China, new urbanization is the inevitable direction of economic transformation and modernization. Technological innovation and industrial structure upgrading are the main ways to promote new urbanization. It is a meaningful question of how the technological innovation and the upgrading of industrial structure affect the new urbanization. Based on the panel data of 30 provincial administrative units except Tibet in Mainland of China in 2010-2018, the paper builds a panel quantile regression model to explore the intensity of the impact of technological innovation and industrial upgrading on new urbanization. The empirical results show that technological innovation has a significant positive impact on new urbanization, when new urbanization changes from the low quintile to the high quintile, the marginal impact of technological innovation on the new urbanization changes from 0.6744 to 0.5983. Besides, the marginal impact of industrial structure upgrading on new urbanization changes from 0.1166 to 0.1843. Industrial upgrading can promote significantly the development of new urbanization in 0.3 - 0.9 quantiles, but the effect is not obvious in the 0.1 - 0.2 quantiles.

Reliability analysis of Tianjin urban rail transit network based on complex network evolution characteristics

The rapid development of new urbanization boosts the pace of urban rail transit (URT) network construction. The new-built lines not only facilitate people’s daily travel, but also change the reliability of the original network. In this paper, based on the complex network theory, the static characteristics of Tianjin URT represented by the current and forward networks are analyzed. The global efficiency is selected as the evaluation index to analyze the evolution characteristics of the network. The results show that Zhigu station and Xiawafang station are more vulnerable in the current network, while Zhangxingzhuang station and Jinzhonghe street station are the key stations in the forward network, and need to be paid more attention. Meanwhile, the lines M9 and Z2 as the key lines in the long-term network and their reliability must be ensured.

Research on the Measurement of New Urbanization Level in Anhui Province from the Green Perspective

With the continuous deepening of the new urbanization process, some contradictions in its development process become increasingly obvious, among which the environmental problems are particularly prominent. People’s demands for green residential towns are further raised, and the concepts of ecological city, green town and sustainable development society are put forward. In this paper, new urbanization and “green” are linked to determine the concept and connotation of green new urbanization. Under the core connotation of the green perspective, the level of new urbanization in Anhui Province is analyzed from four levels of green economy, green environment, green living and green foundation, thus promote the healthy and benign development of new urbanization and provide an opportunity to improve the mechanism of regional ecological coordinated development.

The Development Strategy of New Urbanization Based on Resilient City Theory

This year is the closing year of the “National New Urbanization Plan” issued by the State Council. During this time, the urbanization of China has achieved in-depth development in theory and practice, but it has also encountered many problems in the actual advancement stage. The theory of resilient city has important guiding significance for the sustainable development of new urbanization. Based on the summary of the resilient city theory, combined with China’s new urbanization with Chinese characteristics, the value of the resilient city theory for new urbanization is analyzed from the five perspectives of the city’s natural resilience, economic resilience, social resilience, organizational resilience and technical resilience. And from these five perspectives, it puts forward guiding opinions on the development strategy of new urbanization.