| The concept of "major functional zones" was put forward in both "Proposals of Chinese Communist Party Central Committee about Making the 11th Five-Year-Plan for National Economic and Social Development" and in "The Outline of the 11th Five-Year-Plan of the People's Republic of China for National Economic and Social Development".They both pointed out that "according to the carrying ability of resources and environment, the present development density and the potentiality of development, our land space can be classified into four kinds of major functional zones, which were optimized development zone, key development zone, restricted development zone and prohibited development zone, after taking population distribution, economic distribution, utilization of national land and the pattern of urbanization into consideration. Then the regional polices and performance evaluation will be adjusted and improved according to their major functions in order to standardize the spatial development order and to form a reasonable spatial development structure."After that, the state council declared "Suggestions on Making Plan about Major Function Zones of China" to implement this strategic plan and clearly pointed out to "guide the formation of a coordinated regional development format which has clear major functions, which can coordinate population, economy, resources and environment well and which can narrow the gap of public services and of people's living standards continuously".The strategy of major functional zones has a profound economic and social background. It was put forward after about thirty years of Chinese reform and opening-up with a rapid development, which made great achievements of the social material wealth. On the contrary, the spatial development of Chinese land caused a series of problems, such as the worsening carrying contradiction between regional resources and environment, the random spatial development of Chinese land and the uncoordinated regional development.According to the international experience, one country or region whose per capita GDP exceeds 3,000 U.S. dollars will experience a quick development of its industrialization and urbanization process. With the social material wealth increasing constantly, people pay more attention to social equality, the harmonious relation between man and nature, and the sustainable development of regional spatial development. In the new period of development, it is urgently needed to change the former regional development strategy of "efficiency first", which was the strategic choice made in the productivity seriously lagging behind period, into a new one which is people-oriented, which links equality with efficiency, and which stresses social justice. The traditional extensive economic growth mode of "high energy consumption, high pollution and resource" should be transformed into a "resource-saving and environment-protecting" intensive mode of economic development. The regional disparities and the widening urban-rural gap caused by the traditional economic development strategy should be changed into a coordinated urban-rural development. Therefore, at the new stage of historical development, it is very necessary to form a new pattern of coordinated regional development, which can coordinate population, economy and resource environment and can narrow down the gaps of public services and people's living standards continuously.It is of great theoretical and practical significance to study the strategy of major functional zones. Although it is based on the study of the carrying ability of regional resources and environment, the present development density and the potentiality of development and also can clarify the regional major function and development, the strategy of major functional zones is a completely new topic. There are no sophisticated theories or experience to borrow directly even though there are some foreign experiences, theories and concepts about regional classification, regional planning and regional management for us to refer to. Therefore, the theoretical study of major functional zones will be of great theoretical significance and practical value to both the construction of regional economic subject and to the formation of a healthy and sustainable regional economic development pattern. Firstly, it is good to innovate the regional development strategy of our county and to improve regional development theories; secondly, good to develop the traditional regional management theories of our country and to deepen the coordinated regional development strategy; thirdly, good to ease the growing conflicts of Chinese regional resources and environment, to standardize the spatial development order and to implement the concept of scientific development practically.The study of this thesis will be conducted at both theoretical and empirical levels. The first theoretical part is to construct the framework of regional spatial governance theoretical analysis; the second theoretical part is to study the major functional zones construction within this analysis framework and to systematically discuss major functional zones, regional spatial governance and the construction of major functional zones and so on. Based on the theoretical analysis, the empirical study, combing with the present situation of Sichuan Province, will be carried out. Part one is to study the spatial characteristics of the land in Sichuan, its development and the problems, and the new situation; part two is to build the index system and to divide the major functional zones of Sichuan; part three is to explore the methods and measures which can promote the construction of major functional zones of Sichuan province.Then comes the introduction of the logical framework and content of this thesis. Chapter one is the introduction part, which is about such topics as the background of topic selection, the significance of this study, the relevant literature review, the structure and outline of this study, methods it employed and its new and weak points. Chapter two is about regional spatial governance, which is the framework of theoretical analysis. The discussion about the analysis framework of regional spatial governance theories includes the geographical differences basis of regional spatial governance, its human-land harmony idea, its target state, the sustainable development goal it pursued and finally its principles, modes and methods. Chapter three is titled major functional zones, their classification and the methods of classifying them. This part mainly includes the features, types, functions and development of major functional zones; the connotation, features of major functional zones classification and its relationship with other kinds of classification; the main criteria and standards of major functional zones classification; and the principles, the index system and methods of major functional zones classification. Chapter four is named regional spatial governance and major functional zones construction. This chapter consists of the following parts:regional spatial governance and the formation of major functional zones; the regional spatial classification governance policy system of major functional zones; the financial transfer payment mechanisms of the regional spatial governance of major functional zones; and the ecological compensation mechanisms of the regional spatial governance of major functional zones. Chapter five is about the development state of the land space of Sichuan, its problems and the new situation it will face. This part is composed of spatial features, the present development situation, the problems and the new situations of the land space of Sichuan. Chapter six is the analysis of major functional zones classification. After studying the index construction, the data selection, the index calculation and the evaluation of its clustering combination, this part comes up with the major functional zones classification plan of Sichuan province. Chapter seven is about the means and measure of the major functional zones construction of Sichuan, such as innovating the institutional mechanisms to strengthen regional cooperation; the functions and development of various kinds of major functional zones of Sichuan; adopting regional spatial governance policies to promote the major functional zones construction; increasing the financial transfer payment to promote the major functional zones construction; and implementing differentiated evaluation methods of regional major functions performance.Adopting the spatial analysis as the basic research method with the combination of quantitative analysis, this thesis has conducted both theoretical and empirical studies. Theoretically speaking, this thesis is a systematic theoretical analysis which integrates regional economics, spatial economics, ecological economics, industrial economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics to construct the analysis framework of regional spatial governance theories. Empirically speaking, with a great amount of empirical analysis about the development present situation of Sichuan land space, its problems, the resource and environment carrying capacity of all the regional spaces, the present development density and its development potentiality, this thesis classifies four kinds of major functional zones of Sichuan and clarifies their respective functions, their development and their developments measures and so on. This thesis will be of great significance to deepen the basic theories of major functional zones construction and to promote a healthy, orderly and sustainable development of Chinese land space.Summarizing and studying the previous relevant researches, this paper strives to make the following new points. Firstly, because the study of major functional zones is a new topic, there are no sophisticated international theories, methods and experiences for us to adopt directly and also it just starts in China. Therefore, by discussing the connotation, features, formation mechanisms, classification standards, classification criteria, classification methods, the construction of classification index system and how to construct major functional zones, this thesis aims to build a complete theoretical analysis framework of major functional zones construction. Secondly, the study perspective is another new point. This thesis, taking a regional spatial governance perspective, studies the basis of regional spatial governance, its management, its target state, its goal, its governance principles, its governance models, its governance means and other relevant theories. Then this thesis systematically studies the major functional zones construction within this theoretical framework. Thirdly, this paper clarifies the function and development of all the regional functional zones of Sichuan and proposes countermeasures promoting the major functional zones classification construction by analyzing the carrying capacity of resources and environment, the present development density, the development potentiality of every basic administrative unit. This is a major contribution towards optimizing the allocation of resources of Sichuan, towards standardizing the spatial development order, towards a constant, healthy, coordinated economic development of Sichuan. But there are too many elements and conditions which affect the classification of major functional zones. For example, the carrying capacity of regional resources and environment, the present development density, the development potentiality, and the strategic position, regional condition and basis of economic development at different regional levels. This thesis mainly focuses on the carrying capacity of regional resources and environment, the present development density and the development potentiality and can not make a completely comprehensive and detailed analysis. Besides that, difficulties also can be found in data collection. Limited by data, this paper doesn't include the indexes of resources abundance, environmental capacity and environmental sensitivity when we constructed the index system of Sichuan major functional zones classification. And maybe this influences, to some degree, the major functional zones classification. And surely these weak points will be made up and strengthened in the future.
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