Comprehensive measure and partition of rural hollowing in China
In order to offer a scientific and reasonable recommendation for rural hollowing consolidation, the regional differences of rural hollowing should be researched in China. In this paper, the index system for evaluating rural hollowing degree was constructed with the data related to land use, socio-economic factors, natural elements in each county. The regional differences of rural hollowing and were examined by sub-systems analysis and sys- tem-level evaluation methods. The results were shown as follows. There are three domi- nant factors affecting rural hollowing, i. e. , the extensive degree of the rural residential land use, the effective transferring degree of population, and the economic development degree. The regional difference of rural hollowing was significant. High-value regions of rural hollowing were mainly found near northern borders and in eastern coastal counties of China. Meanwhile, the rural hollowing was more prominent in the area of Hunan and Hu- bei and traditional agricultural regions in Central China. Low rural hollowing is mainly found in south Xinjiang, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and mountainous regions of Southwest China, showing a pattern of spatial agglomeration. The rural hollowing areas are divided into 10 big regions and 47 sub-regions, including Xinjiang Region with low rural hollowing at stable economic development level, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Region with low rural hollo- wing at economic backward level, Huang-Huai-Hai Plain Region with moderate rural hol- lowing at stable economic development level. In the future, the rural hollowing counties will be renovated based on the theories on restructuring of industry, space and organiza- tion.
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