Interacting relationship between human settlement environment of urban and population migration
Using the construction method of Human Development Index for reference,this paper reassesses the quality of urban livability environment from 5 aspects of economic condition,public services,residential environment,institutions and urban modernization based on the perspective of migrants'well-being,and uses 2 periods of population migration data to analyze the interaction effect of human settlements in 279 prefecture-level city in China,and explore the dynamic impact mechanism between urban human settlements and popula-tion migration.Research has found that:1)During the sample inspection period,the human settlements envir-onment of Chinese cities has improved,to some extent,the gap in urban construction level has narrowed,and the space shows a"high in the east and low in the west"feature.The agglomeration effect of central cities is obvious,and cities in the eastern region have experienced a"club convergence"phenomenon,while inland areas in the central and western regions of China have fallen into the"low value trap"of the human livability environment.2)The net migration pattern of the national population shows a"concave"spatial feature of"low in the middle and high in the surrounding areas".The migration population is mainly distributed in mega and mega cities with a population size of over 5 million,but the main driving force for the growth of the migration population is small and medium-sized cities.3)The improvement of urban human settlements environment has a positive effect on the increase of population migration.The difference in economic development and the level of social integration are the core factors that cause the spatial difference in the scale of population migration.Life comfort has gradually become an important source of driving population migration.At the provincial level,the driving factors reflect spatial heterogeneity.4)The impact of population migration scale is not yet enough to become one of the leading factors in stabilizing changes in the urban livability environment.There-fore,the construction of urban human settlements environment with the key to enhancing well-being should be adapted to the changes in population characteristics in the new development stage to promote the high-quality development of new urbanization.
human settlement environmentpopulation migrationinteracting effectGeodetector