Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Spatiotemporal Distribution of Rural Houses Construction Development in Mountainous Villages of China (1980–2019): A Case Study of Qingyuan Town

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

1. Framework of this research needs to be redrawn to reflect the core research contents.

2. Is the division of the two sections appropriate for literature review? The authors should also review more about the research methods, characteristics and influencing factors related researches.

3. Figure 3, the scale and map of China in the Research Area are incorrect, and there is no north pointer. Figure 4 also doesn't have the north pointer.

4. The following content is rough in every place, like an undergraduate course paper, and the figures and tables are not exquisite enough. Punctuation and other problems appear in many places.

5. The biggest problem is that the analysis of the biggest influencing factors of rural house construction development in mountainous areas with these methods is completely insufficient and not deep enough. The author only analyzes several selected factors repeatedly, without analyzing the geographical reasons and economic background behind them.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The article presents an interesting topic regarding the development of construction in rural areas, specifically in a village in China using spatiotemporal tools. Although the manuscript is clearly written, the data collection part could be improved since the source of the data are not clear. The groupings that were created for the utilization of diverse statistical analyses of the data are presented, but not the methodology by which the source data were gathered. In the same way, it would be important to improve the part of spatiotemporal characteristics that could show changes over time on a map.

Finally the conclusions may encompass how this research facilitates the formulation of public policy to aid villages in decline.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The paper need some changes

The current text of the introduction should be moved to point 2.1.1 and the current text of the subsection must be the introduction.

The paper need references in some areas.

Environmental problems eg water or local polution

Landscape problems

Changes in morphology of traditional villages

Social changes with new residents.

Please quoted K. Hoggart 2021 A contrived countryside Springer.

Paniagua A. Conceptualizing new materialism Land 2022.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The author has made detailed revisions based on my review comments, and has basically answered my questions, especially about literature review, influencing factors and conclusions. The quality of the article has greatly improved compared with the previous version.

Author Response

Thank you so much!

Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The paper need improve the style of lenguage and need in the conclusion section some critical commments about the environmental and social problems of housing construction.

Comments on the Quality of English Language

Minor changrs in style

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