Measurement of the Level of Urban-Rural Integrated Development in Counties of the Yangtze River Delta and Influencing Factors Analysis
Urban-rural integration at the county level represents a new stage in the evolution of urban-rural relations in China,and it is the key to realizing the coordinated development of urbanization and rural revitalization with counties as an important carrier.This study measures the urban-rural integrated development level of 152 county-level administrative units in the Yangtze River Delta from 2010 to 2021,and analyzes the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and the influencing factors.The results show that the level of urban-rural integrated development at the county level in the Yangtze River Delta shows a fluctuating upward trend,and shows the dimensional difference,namely ecological integration>population integration>spatial integration>economic integration>social integration.In terms of spatial distribution,it shows the characteristics of"core-periphery"structure with"east as the center radiating to the periphery".In the process of dynamic evolution,there is a trend of gradual transition from low-level fusion area to medium-level fusion area.The analysis of influencing factors shows that the fiscal self-sufficiency rate significantly promotes the development level of urban-rural integration at the county level,while the industrial structure imbalance and the financial loan ratio have a significant negative correlation with it,and the influencing factors are heterogeneous according to the population size and economic location of different county-level administrative units.
Yangtze River Deltacounty-level urban-rural integrationspatiotemporal characteristicsinfluencing factors