The Spatiotemporal Evolution and Forward-looking Analysis of the Development of Regional Integration in the Yangtze River Delta from a Policy Perspective:Qualitative Econometric Analysis Based on Automatic Encoding of NVivo
Understanding the direction and forefronts of regional integration in the Yangtze River Delta is of significant importance for China's development.Based on NVivo 12,the paper conducts a qualitative analysis of 146 policy documents related to regional integration of the Yangtze River Delta.Building on a comprehensive and systematic review of spatial-temporal evolution of regional integration of the Yangtze River Delta,this paper identifies laws of regional integration,providing a new per-spective for understanding regional integrated development.Additionally,it advances forward-looking views on important issues concerning regional integration,offering guidance for subsequent policy making,planning,and strategic decision-making on the regional integration of the Yangtze River Delta.The research reveals that re-gional integration factors,changing issues,and spatial evolution form the core of re-gional integration laws.Overall regional integration in the Yangtze River Delta works through s chain of economic resource,technical resource,institutional mecha-nism,and ecological and cultural resource.Critical issues evolve from resource devel-opment and utilization,to efficiency improvement,to spatial integration and connec-tion,and finally to the development of new momentum.In the process,spatial evolu-tion follows the pathway of spatial unit combination,spatial link establishment,space provision and cultivation,and spatial governance.Finally,the paper proposes measures for deepening regional integration in the Yangtze River Delta,including ex-tensive opening-up to new productive forces from the outside,breaking geographical barriers,and collaboration and industrial innovation in the utilization of marine re-sources.
Yangtze River Deltaregional integrationregulations and policiesterrito-rial spatial planningqualitative econometric analysis in Nvivo