Measurement and Spatiotemporal Evolution of Common Prosperity Level at the County Level in China
Taking 1 749 counties in China from 2015 to 2021 as the research object,this paper constructs a county-level common prosperity index evaluation system from the three dimensions of affluence,commonality and sharing of development results,and uses the entropy weight method to measure it,and at the same time,the re-gional differences and spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of county-level common prosperity development in China are investigated.The results show that the level of common prosperity in counties across the country has in-creased significantly,and the common prosperity among counties has a significant positive spillover effect,but the overall level is not high.Regional development differences show that the counties in the eastern region have the highest level of common prosperity,but the central and western regions have the largest growth rate,and gradually give full play to their late-mover"catch-up advantages".The results of spatiotemporal evolution show that the spa-tial distribution of common prosperity presents the characteristics of"eastern leading,overlapping high and low,and obvious agglomeration".The development of common prosperity between counties is gradual,and there is a"club convergence"effect and a certain path dependence.
county areacommon prosperityspatial agglomerationtemporal and spatial evolution