The Principal Function Zone Construction In Hunan Province

The topic of principal function zone construction is not adequately studied by the foreign researchers. Domestic researchers pay a lot of attention on this newly developed concept. However, there is no consensus of theory on it. With respect to the provincial principal function zone construction, there are fewer researches involved in this issue. The principal function zone construction consists of regionalization, planning and performance assessment. The principal function zone construction aims to normalize spatial development order and form the rational space development structure. It is not only a significant strategic initiation proposed by the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, but also a great reflection of the implementation of scientific development view and regional sustainable development. As an important province in central China, Hunan Province plays an important role in the Plan of Grow-Up of Central Region. The principal function zone construction is a great opportunity to improve the harmonious development of population, environment and economy. Therefore, research on the theoretical and empirical methodology of principal function regionalization, planning and performance assessment of Hunan Province will contribute significantly to the theory and practice for principal function zone construction. Consequently, this paper studies on the principal function regionalization, planning and construction performance assessment of Hunan Province based on the analysis of status of Hunan natural profile and social economy development. The key ideas and main innovations are shown as below.(1) The approaches for Hunan principal function regionalization based on territory evaluation and clustering method are proposed. Considering the lack of mature principal function regionalization method, this paper qualitatively analyzes the status of Hunan natural profile and social economy development and builds Hunan principal function regionalization indicator system from perspectives of resource environmental bearing capacity, existing development density and development potential according to the requirement of principal function regionalization. An entropy method based comprehensive territory evaluation is proposed to conduct the evaluation with the real-world data on fourteen municipal regions of Hunan Province. The result of evaluation complies with the economic development status of each regions and the Hunan development strategy. Meanwhile, K-means clustering and hierarchical clustering are adopted respectively to conduct the clustering with the same real-world data. Two kinds of results are similar and consistent with the result of territory evaluation. This paper calculates a set of alternatives of Hunan principal function zones based on the two kinds of clustering results as the reference to support the decision process of government.(2) An overall scheme of four types of Hunan principal function zone planning and the corresponding policy system framework are proposed. The research of principal function zone planning is on its early stage. The Logistic Curve is introduced to interpret the process of region sustainable development. The basic requirements of region sustainable development are presented according to the supply-demand model of space and resource, from which derive the ability function of region sustainable development. The mechanism of region sustainable development is further discussed and the process of development and direction of planning is analyzed. Base on the above analysis, this paper identifies four planning goals, three strategic tasks and an overall scheme of four types of Hunan principal function zone plan. As part of the Hunan principal function zone plan, the policy system consists of fiscal policies, investment policies, industry policies, land policies, population management policies and environment protection policies. The planning result and policy system framework can provide the reference for relevant government department.(3) Four types of Hunan principal function zone construction performance assessment indicator systems are built respectively. The performance assessment indicators are proposed according to the characters and goals of Hunan four types of principal function zone construction. The comprehensive construction performance assessment indicator systems of Hunan key development zone, Hunan restricted development ecological zone, Hunan restricted development agricultural zone and Hunan prohibited development zone are built respectively after selection and optimization of indicators by questionnaire and factorial analysis. Comparing to the previous unified region construction performance assessment indicator system, the classified Hunan principal function zone construction performance assessment indicator systems are helpful to objectively assess the construction performance and promote the region harmonious development. The indicator system established in this paper is the guidance for other provinces'principal function zone construction.(4) The main-elements analysis and ANP and fuzzy set theory based performance assessment model is created. In order to assess the performance of principal function zone construction objectively, the result of assessment should be analyzed comprehensively. The weights of indicators are determined by weight determining method combining subjective and objective approaches. The objective weights determined by main-elements analysis and the subjective weights determined by ANP and fuzzy set theory are combined by the methods of minimum square sum of deviation. The values of construction performance assessment are calculated with the indicators value and weights. This paper applies the proposed approach to obtain the weight of Hunan key development zone construction performance assessment in the context of Hunan province and shows the effectiveness of the proposed performance assessment model with a case study evaluating the construction performance of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan. The empirical study proves that the indicator system and performance assessment methods of Hunan principal function zone construction proposed in this paper are feasible and effective.