Study On The Coupling Coordinated Development And Influencing Factors Of Rural Revitalization And New Urbanization In Gansu Province

Since the founding of New China in 1949,the Communist Party of China(CPC)and the Chinese government have always paid great attention to the issue of urban and rural development and have conducted a series of policy explorations on urban and rural development in specific periods.The change from the initial separated urban-rural development to an integrated urban-rural development reflects the need for an important national development strategy and a high level of national governance wisdom.Rural revitalization and new urbanization have an objective symbiotic relationship in the process of social development and have the attributes of mutual influence and synergistic development.At present,there is still a gap between the province’s urban and rural development levels compared to the whole country.Poor free flow of urban and rural factors,prominent dualistic economic structure,and unreasonable allocation of public resources have constrained the coordinated development of urban-rural areas in Gansu Province.Therefore,studying the coupling coordinated development and influencing factors of rural revitalization and new urbanization in Gansu Province will help clarify the contradictions,development trends,typical characteristics,spatial differences,and influencing factors in the process of urban-rural coordinated development in Gansu Province.This study constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system for rural revitalization and new urbanization at the county level.It evaluates the level of rural revitalization and new urbanization of 86 county units in Gansu Province from2013-2019 using the entropy weighting method and the spatial visualization of the evolution of the spatial and temporal patterns of rural revitalization and new urbanization development Gansu Province with the help of Arc GIS,Geo Da and other software.The coupled coordination model was used to measure the degree of synergistic development between the two,with a view to reasonably reflect the actual situation of rural revitalization and new urbanization coupled coordination development at the county level of Gansu Province.The exploratory Spatio-temporal data analysis is used to describe the Spatio-temporal structure characteristics of the coupling coordination degree of rural revitalization and new urbanization at county units in Gansu Province and further systematically analyze the spatial structure,distribution,and temporal evolution characteristics of temporal behavior during the research period.Based on the analysis of the coupling coordination degree of rural revitalization and new urbanization,the Geographically Weighted Regression(GWR)model was used to analyze the driving factors,to examine the influencing factors of the coupling coordination development of rural revitalization and new urbanization at the county level in Gansu Province.Countermeasures and suggestions are put forward for further promoting the coordinated development of rural revitalization and new urbanization strategies in different regions in less developed areas.The important conclusions of the paper are as follows:(1)There are significant spatial differences between the level of rural revitalization and the level of new urbanization,with both showing a development trend of "high in the northwest and low in the southeast." The rural revitalization index is highest in the Hexi region,while Longnan city,Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture are at the bottom of the province.The gap between the highest and lowest scores on the index is noticeable,and the level of rural revitalization development shows unequal strengths and weaknesses,with more apparent differences in the hierarchy.The new urbanisation level of the Hexi region is at the forefront of the province,while the new urbanisation level of the Longnan and the Gannan is at a medium to low level.The standard deviation ellipse of rural revitalization and new urbanization development presents a similar northwest southeast axis development,and the distribution is roughly consistent with the geographical pattern.The direction characteristics of rural revitalization and new urbanization development indexes have not changed significantly,and their development characteristics are spatially locked.(2)There is heterogeneity in the sub classification of coupling coordination among counties in Gansu Province,In the basic imbalance type and basic coordination type,the rural revitalization lag type accounted for the majority.There is no lagging type of new urbanization development in the province.The coupling coordination degree of rural revitalization and new urbanization in Hexi region ranks first in the whole province,while Longzhong region and Longdongnan region is relatively low.The nuclear density distribution curve shows an obvious right shift,which indicates that the coupling coordination degree shows an increasing trend and continues to move towards a high level.The peak value of the nuclear density curve shows an upward trend of evolution,the width of the wave peak narrows and the right tail of the nuclear density curve lengthens year by year.(3)During the study period,the spatial pattern of the coupling coordination degree of rural revitalization and new urbanization at the county level has a certain degree of smoothness.It has weak volatility in the local spatial dependence direction and spatial growth process and is relatively weak by neighboring cities’ spillover effect or siphon effect.The coupling coordination degree at the county-level is less affected by the spillover effect of adjacent county units,and the overall trend of high or low growth is more prominent.The local spatial correlation pattern of the coupling coordination degree is kept in a stable situation,and most counties have not experienced any transition;the spatial pattern shows certain characteristics of transfer inertia and path dependence.The influencing factors of the coupling coordination degree of rural revitalization and new urbanization at the county level in Gansu Province vary greatly in spatial distribution,and generally show a blocky distribution development trend.The influence coefficient of urban-rural income gap,urban-rural consumption gap and industrial duality level is negative,while the influence coefficient of economic development level and government regulation level is positive.(4)The core of the coordinated development of rural revitalization and new urbanization in Gansu Province is still to focus on bringing the rural with the urban and promoting the rural with the urban to narrow the gap between rural and urban development.In the future,Gansu Province should adhere to the mechanism of bidirectional flow of capital,information,technology and other factors to connect urban and rural industries development;should adhere to the mechanism of the concept of green,low-carbon and environmental protection to connect urban and rural ecological development;should adhere to the mechanism of the construction of advanced cultural industries to connect urban and rural urban and rural culture development;should adhere to the mechanism of using self-governance,rule of law and moral governance to connect urban and rural governance development;should adhere to the mechanism of joint construction and sharing of infrastructure to connect urban and rural social development.Thus,the high quality and efficient coordinated development of rural revitalization and new urbanization in Gansu Province in the new era can be realized,and the new situation of enriching the people and rejuvenating the Gansu province can be realized.