Development paradigm of urbanization in county towns:A perspective from Digitalization
"Promoting the urbanization with county towns as an important carrier"is put forward clearly in The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China,it marks that China's new urbanization construction has entered a new stage of high-quality development.Based on the development paradigm of"Three changes in agriculture,rural areas and farmers"in the background of digitalization in new urbanization construction,from a configuration perspective,a theoretical model to drive urbanization in county towns is constructed,and a qualitative comparative analysis on 83 counties(cities,districts)in China is conducted.Based on the conditions of spatial structure adjustment,industrial transformation and upgrading,and governance structure reform,the configuration path and path difference of county urbanization construction are revealed.The results confirm the diversity of the county urbanization construction path and the complexity of the combination of conditions,and obtain multiple driving paths at the level of space,industry and governance.The research is helpful to deepen the academic understanding of the asymmetric causal relationship between multi-level factors and county urbanization under the background of digitalization,it provides theoretical basis for the concrete practice of driving high quality development of county.