Research On The Harmonious Development Of Urban System In Central Shaanxi Plain

Under the macro background of economy globalization and regional economy integration, the competitions between cities have shifted from the original mono-play in which cities compete each other to the present group competition centering core cities in which the interest of certain city is more depended on the unified regional interest, and on the mutual-influence of the spatial structure, business distribution and systematic development from other cities in the same region. Thus, it is an universally regional development model and trend to set up harmonious urban system by their conformity and recombination applying various effective approaches. Due to the present lagging development of Central Shaanxi urban system, how to accelerate the harmonious development of the economy, society and eco-resources by urban optimizing with their concentration and diffusivity according to the basic laws in global Industry structure adjustment and spatial recombination taking advantage of great opportunities of "Western Development "and "Development of Central Shaanxi Plain"is of vital importance to Central Shaanxi where there is of advantages in space, tourism, intellectual and policy. Based on the defining to certain terms, the investigation of domestic and overseas urban development process as well as the comparative analysis with those in Central Shaanxi, the total eight chapters of this paper studied the evolution, and characteristics of their scale, function and space guided by primary principles and theories of urban evolvement, declared the existed problems and stage, advocated the subject of harmonious development of urban system in accordance with the prospective objects and intrinsic requirements on economy, society and environment in new ages, introduced a deep study from four aspects of function and Industry orientation, spatial structure, scale adjustment, and development and management mechanism following thesis of "three structures—systematic location—harmonious coexistence", and finally promoted the general plan improving the harmonious development of urban system in Central Shaanxi Plain. Chapter I Introduction This chapter mainly illustrated the background, aims and significance of the paper. it emphasized on the theoretical and practical evaluation over the researching situation in China and overseas, pointed out the disadvantages of the current research and the new researching orientation and keys to be shifted from dynamic to static, from regional to global, from structure to mechanism and adjustment so as to meet the requirements from regional economy, society and environment, and finally illustrated the innovations in researching reasoning and methods of this paper. Chapter II Connotation Illustration and Evolvement Principle Analysis of Urban System Starting from the illustration on the origins, development, four layers meaning of the definition of urban system, this chapter analyzed the relationship between urban area, towns circle and regional economic development with urban system; divided a four stage system form pre-industry to early-industry (rudiment period) to Industry expanding (urban formation) to late and post-industry(stages of urban development)to urban optimizing according to the Industry evolvement; mapped out the influence from economy globalization to urban scale, function, space, researching range and government roles; brought about that the regional urban system will break the traditional development way gradually to reach the global standard, the system structure will develop from one ford toward multi-cores and system development, and the unity, structural, ordered and dynamic urban system will further push forward the adjustment of Industry distribution and unification of cities and countryside. Chapter III Evolvement and Present Stage Orientation of Urban System in Central Shaanxi Plain At first, this chapter reviewed the emergence, evolvement and developing stages of Central Shaanxi plain towns, then, it carried out dynamic analysis over the evolvement process and characteristics of its scale structure, functional, spatial structure; concluded the notions of "Industry to be basis", "capital to be motivation", and "environment bettering and rules innovation to be key factors"based on the investigation on theory and practice of cities in American West, China's east as well as the comparison from those in Shaanxi; and uncovered the existing problems and probed its present stage and development orientation combining evolvement theory and current situations. Chapter IV Function Orientation and Industry Selection of Urban in Central Shaanxi Plain At first, the chapter put forward a theoretical module in the complement, perfect and trussing of the traditional function orientation by strengthening its own adjustability based on the analysis of the traditional theory and its disadvantage. Furthermore, the comprehensive evaluation of its developing environment by SWOT proved the coexistence of opportunities and challenges in its future development, figured out the breakthrough to be environmental optimizing, mechanism innovation, priorities conformity in development method of combining "hi-tech Industry group, traditional industries equipped by hi-tech, modern service trades pillared on hi-tech"; designed the cyber spatial distribution in module of "points—axes"formed by key towns, gardens and traffic artery. In the latter part, the chapter carried out an assessment and seriating on the economic competence of the five cities, one zone and 38 counties in composition analysis with different index system, fostered the key development strategy to be "breeding counties economy, protruding the center (Xian-Xianyang urban circle), driving the both ends (Baoji Weinan)"; ascertained the function orientation and Industry development direction and cited fruits Industry in north of Weihe river as an example to progress a systematic demonstrative research on the harmonious urban development there centering fruits Industry. Chapter V Spatial Distribution Optimization of Urban in Central Shaanxi Plain After confirming relative spatial theories, this chapter applied a quantitative analysis on thecentralization and disintegration of towns in Central Shaanxi. The conclusion is that both are appearing at the same time with centralization to be the main tendency and disintegration to be the passive effects from the diffusing of core cities. Then the paper generalized the connotative mechanism of its spatial structure on the analysis of influence effects from elements like geography, history, investment, technology, industry distribution, system and institutions; introduced the reasonable location chained by economy in areas requiring suitability of space optimization with regional development to the future evolvement tendency; and promoted a general location plan of setting up development pattern with "circles and axies"concerning regional characteristics, emphasizing the construction a "Mi (double cross)"economic chain centering Xian and some key zones, applying the strategy of "spots-chains-web-cyber", programming Industries and key projects in towns according to economy connection and resources distribution, mapping out various functional zones for industry, agriculture, ecology and tourism, accelerating the organic combination of big , medium and small cities and driving the development of counties and towns, constructing location module And operating mechanism based on industry division in the principle of "aiming at market, centering in strategy and guided by conformity"in economic zones of cities. in the end, this chapter cited Xian-Xianyang economic zone as the example to study the spatial distribution there with the former analysis results. Chapter VI Urban System Reconstruction in Central Shaanxi Plain Beginning with the development process, the common and respective features of core city urban system, statuesque system, cross-nation system, breeder system, variation system and web system, this chapter illustrated the advantages and disadvantages of core city system in Central Shaanxi concluding its unsuitability to economic and Industry structure adjustment in the open and changing environment. then concerning the present and future development tendency, economic level and geography there, it demonstrated a general strategic outline on one hand to reinforce the core cities, prop up medium and small cities and intensify important key towns which is to be carried out in regions combining spots development and group exploration centering main axes exploitation, on the other hand to set up a urban system with multi cores and webs suitable for both economy development and ecology based on the harmonious existence, proper location and profound cooperation among big, medium and small cities. In the very end, following the general outline, the paper developed reconstruction duties like spatial modules mainly of "traffic axes—grape cluster—ecological greenbelt", "spots—axes—web"and urban scale system centering "multi cores—different levels—opening web". Chapter VII Harmonious Development Mechanism and Management Pattern Formation of Urban System in Central Shaanxi Plain Firstly, three different view layers of macro, medium, and micro are adopted to study the relevant mechanism for developing urban system in Central Shaanxi; The macro layer mainly probed into the affect from government affair to urban development, reached the conclusion that whether government will rationalize and benefit the harmoniousdevelopment will be largely owed to the government affair regulation and adaptive general planning system to fix on the urban construction aims and stresses on the foundation of speeding up mechanism and principle innovation; The medium emphasized analyzing the Industry assembling mechanism for harmonious development acceleration and regional distribution and cross-regional adjustment among economic zones from the two aspects of Industry structuring and regional economic spatial location; The micro analyzed the behavioral characteristics of the micro subject and its motivation effects in the urban system development from aspects of enterprises, non-governmental organizations and the public, and set up the compatible mechanism of its active stimulus and restriction. Then, the paper focused on the comparative analysis of some of the global management and administration styles such as resultant control in north America, cities alliance in Europe and respective combination in Asia, advocated the style of "government +market, integrated + zonal"to push forward the urban harmonious development. Finally, the paper built the management and administration mood satisfying the regional benefits in central Plain, north of Weihe River, north of Qingling Mountain under the background of economic globalization. Chapter VIII The Development Countermeasure of Harmonious Development of Urban System in Central Shaanxi Plain Based on the analysis in the former chapters, we came to the conclusion that the traditional laws, principles and mechanism emphasized too much over core cities development whereas neglected the zonal and county economic condition development, which resulted the suffocation of material and information communication between cities and the surround countryside as well as the slow-down in urbanization and urban development. Therefore, the principle adjustment and system reform should try to take the whole regional (both cities and countryside ) development into consideration, drive the reasonable adjustment by founding principle basis and creating impartial environment so as to motivate the harmonious development of urban system. Following this general plan, the end of this chapter proposed practical measures like Industry principle systematic adjustment, the core cities radiation and ladder-like propelling strategy, institution innovation, regional urban construction, general planning and environmental soft and hardware construction.