"Exogenous-Endogenous"Development:Mitigation Pathway for Border Population Hollowing
The hollowing out of border population poses a threat to national security and border security.It should not be taken lightly as it is essentially a population safety problem and different from the general population hollow-ing out.Overall planning for security and development is an inevitable requirement for safeguarding national interests in border areas.Analysing the hollowing out of border population from the perspective of traditional development concepts involves only one aspect of exogenous or endogenous factor,but not the comprehensive mechanism of the interaction between internal and external factors.In the new development paradigm,the new development concept should be used to comprehensively review the high-quality development approach of"Vital-izing Border Areas and Enriching the People".For this purpose,a remote sensing analysis and a field investigation of the southwest border areas were conducted.The findings suggest that it is difficult to promote"local moderniza-tion"in the southwestern border areas through"external dependency",and the alleviation of the hollowing out of border population is faced with such endogenous problems as material basis,operational and spiritual support.Therefore,under the inevitable trend of hollowing out,it is necessary to improve the border policy system,promote the digitalization of border defense,strengthen the publicity and education to foster a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation,thereby bridging the"exogenous-endogenous"dichotomy,realizing the"exogenous-endogenous"development of the border areas,and alleviating the negative impact of the hollowing out of border population.