Through constructing the evaluation index system of rural revitalization under the general requirements of twenty words,this paper,by using of entropy method,kernel density estimation,and spatial β-convergence model,mea-sures and examines the index of rural revitalization from 2012 to 2021,with 5-dimensions development level,dynamic evo-lution trend,and spatial convergence features considered.In three measurements,the research demonstrates that the develop-ment level of China's rural revitalization is relatively low,but it has increased steadily during the examining period.and with a striking spatial differences in the development level in different regions,that is,the development level of the eastern region is higher than that of the central and western regions,in descending order in size,the indexes for the five dimensions include industrial prosperity,effective governance,affluent living,civilized rural culture and ecological livability;that the whole country and the central region show a high level of agglomeration,the western region a high-and-low level of ag-glomeration,the eastern region does not show a clear high-and-low level of agglomeration,that is,the absolute difference in the level of rural revitalization in different regions is gradually narrowing and the phenomenon of polarization of the nation-al distribution is constantly improving with a certain degree of polarization within different regions;that there is a significant spatial β-convergence and significant positive spatial spillovers in rural revitalization across the country,and in the eastern,central and western regions,the differentiable-controlled economic characteristic variables influence the spatial convergence of the level of development of rural revitalization to a certain extent.
rural revitalizationentropy methodkernel density estimationspatial β-convergence