24 February 2023
Counties are the basic unit for addressing unbalanced development in a region, revitalizing rural areas, and promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas. Despite the importance of county-level research, few studies have been conduct...
With the increasingly urgent demand for the localization of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs), the construction of an evaluation system and the practice paths of counties, as important spatial units of China’s susta...
Digitalization has been remodeling the pattern of economic development. Digital finance, the important manifestation of digitalization in this financial field, has profound effect on reducing inequalities (Sustainable Development Goal 10). With data...
We argue that a new type of adaptive change management is needed in Romania, in which social and territorial cohesion are key elements of governance, in accordance with sustainable development requirements. Based on critical analysis and comparative...
Common prosperity constitutes a fundamental goal of Chinese modernization, and digital rural development has emerged as an important pathway for advancing sustainable rural transformation. Based on balanced panel data covering 61 counties in Hubei Pr...
The digital economy is a vital engine driving grassroots sustainable development, yet whether and how it promotes the coordinated evolution of economic and environmental resilience at the county level remains to be further empirically tested. Using p...
Using panel data from 40 counties in Jiangsu Province covering the period 2016–2023, this study proposes five testable propositions and develops econometric models to explore how digital financial inclusion influences high-quality economic deve...
Counties are the fundamental platforms of urban–rural integration in China. Indicators at the county level, however, are insufficiently investigated for their interlinkage with each other. This study focuses on the indicators in the China Stati...
The 14th Five-Year Plan of China proposes promoting urbanization construction, with counties as an important carrier. In order to evaluate the urbanization development level of counties in Western China, this study established an index system of popu...
Sustainable development has become a main concern of governments at a variety of levels. Assessing ecological assets, which is significant for the sustainability of human society, plays an important role in measuring the performance of local governme...
In the context of stock-based development, assessing the development potential of idle rural resources and formulating differentiated utilization pathways are important for improving resource-use efficiency and stimulating endogenous rural developmen...
The development of rural areas is a significant component in social and economic activities. It is very important for optimizing the allocation of rural production and living factors, promoting the integration of urban and rural areas and sustainable...
Main Functional Area Planning (MFAP) is a significant initiative in China, aimed at promoting coordinated socio-economic progress while ensuring resource capacity and environmental sustainability. However, there is a lack of quantitative assessments...
To coordinate renewable energy expansion with land use, grassland ecology, and agro-pastoral activities, this study developed a county-scale photovoltaic suitability framework for Shangyi County, Hebei Province, China, integrating a geographic inform...
25 November 2018
Land resources provide stable support for economic development in China. However, due to the scarcity of land, the contradiction between agricultural land protection and construction land expansion is prominent. Under such circumstances, optimal allo...
Ecologically fragile and economically underdeveloped mountainous regions face the dual challenge of pursuing catch-up development while maintaining ecological security. Although scientific and technological innovation is widely viewed as a key driver...
Global demographic shifts and rising population mobility have created a profound decoupling between dynamic population distributions and static public service facility configurations. This socio-spatial mismatch is particularly acute in less-develope...
The coordinated development of urban agglomerations is a crucial means of establishing a territorial development and protection pattern with complementary advantages and high-quality development. In this study, an evaluation was performed on the coor...
China’s National Agricultural Science and Technology Parks (NASTPs) play a key role in improving the nation’s agro-industrial structure and regional economic development; notably, NASTPs can demonstrate innovations in modern agricultural science and...
China’s rural areas face population loss and expanded residential land in the context of rapid urbanization. The increasing hollowing of villages leads to extensive land use, making it necessary to optimize and consolidate rural settlements imm...
Measuring the rural development level of counties is helpful for identifying regional differences and proposing targeted strategies. In this study, 44,743-point data were selected from 17 types of rural lists in China, and a four-dimensional indicato...
Sandy desertification is one of the most severe ecological problems in the world. Essentially, it is land degradation caused by discordance in the Social-Ecological Systems (SES). The ability to coordinate SES is a principal characteristic of regiona...
The issue of transport exclusion is an important social problem. It is of major interest to both central and local authorities. For the purposes of this study, a research questionnaire was conducted on the issue of transport exclusion. The area of th...
Under the global climate governance framework, advancing China’s “Dual Carbon” goals within the context of sustainable development requires detailed, micro-level research. While existing studies predominantly focus on national or pr...
Ethnic regions in China primarily focus on the development of agricultural and animal husbandry economies, which are relatively underdeveloped. Rural industry integration development (RIID) is considered the foundation and guarantee for ethnic region...
Land suitability evaluation is the basis for optimizing and adjusting regional land use structure and layout, making scientific decisions, and planning, according to local conditions. It is also the basis for developing local characteristic poverty a...
A scientific and comprehensive effectiveness evaluation is a prerequisite for clarifying the guiding direction of rural socio-economic development and environmental protection. By using the VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR)...
Against the backdrop of China’s vigorous promotion of rural revitalization, traditional villages have become important carriers of rural tourism; however, their tourism development potential varies significantly. Using 182 traditional villages...
Under the background of rural revitalization and domestic and international double circulation, vigorously developing the rural distribution industry is an important measure needed to accelerate the process of urban–rural integration, and to en...
The agro-tourism integration model combines agricultural production, rural life, and tourism experiences, bringing new opportunities for the sustainable development of counties. The objective of this study is to explore the impact of the agro-tourism...
It is evident that relations between political conditions and community development have become sophisticated in recent years. More people now live in urbanized areas, and this ongoing urbanization has various ramifications. Many countries are facing...
City–county consolidation is a common measure used by many cities to promote urbanization. This study develops the theoretical transmission mechanism, “city-county consolidation intensifies competition in the enterprise market improves th...
Large-scale ecological restoration initiatives are increasingly central to global conservation agendas, yet their macroeconomic consequences on regional development remain scarcely debated. Exploiting China’s Shan-Shui Initiative as a quasi-nat...
The coordinated relationship between ecology, economy and transportation is essential for regional sustainable development. Does the high-quality ecological environment mean the lagging development of economy and transportation, or does the rapid gro...
Investigating the coupling coordination relationship between water resources, ecology and the economy is the basis process for watershed governing to achieve sustainable development. Taking the Wuding River watershed (one of the largest tributaries o...
The requisition–compensation balance of farmland (RCBF) policy proposes that all farmland requisitioned for development must be compensated with new farmland, of which the continued implementation in economically developed counties in China fac...
China’s urbanization has achieved rapid development in the past 20 years, with towns expanding in size and the population increasing, while rural society has also undergone dramatic changes. An in-depth study on the evolution process of rural s...
Weak sustainability (WS) requires that the inclusive wealth (IW) of a place (e.g., the world, a nation, or a sub-national region) be non-decreasing over a long time. The WS framework provides a more complete account of the sustainability of a place t...
Industrial development is a fundamental driver of socio-economic progress, and industrial structure upgrading plays a vital role in advancing rural revitalization. Based on county-level panel data from Fujian Province from 2017 to 2022, this study em...
Persistent urban–rural inequality remains a major challenge for sustainable regional development, especially in countries where rural communities still face limited access to markets, employment, and public services. This study examines whether...
The rural collective property rights system reform (RCPRSR) is a pivotal institutional innovation for revitalizing rural resources, optimizing factor allocation, and advancing urban–rural integration—a core goal of sustainable land use pl...
Local government relates to the public administration of towns, cities, counties, and districts. One of the key responsibilities of local government is the administrative purpose of supplying goods and services. Local governments should also represen...
County-level economic statistics estimation using remotely sensed data, such as nighttime light data, has various advantages over traditional methods. However, uncertainties in remotely sensed data, such as the saturation problem of the Defense Meteo...
Rapid urbanization has brought many problems, including housing shortages, traffic congestion, air pollution, and lack of public space. To solve these problems, the United Nations proposed “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which contains...
Poverty is a primary obstacle to achieving sustainable development. Therefore, exploring the spatiotemporal dynamics and causes of poverty is of great significance to the sustainable poverty reduction of the “post poverty alleviation era”...
Digital entrepreneurship, driven by digital technology and the digital economy, is a vital pathway for high-quality economic development. In China, the “National Pilot Policy of Information Accessibility” has been a key initiative to adva...
To examine whether tourism can effectively stimulate economic growth following a disaster shock, we apply a panel threshold regression technique to test the threshold effect of tourism development on economic growth of the 36 Wenchuan earthquake-affe...
Rapid urbanization has intensified resource and population agglomeration while exacerbating urban-rural disparities. To address the long-standing dual structure, China advocates urban-rural integrated development (URID) to achieve common prosperity....
Accurate monitoring of income inequality is critical for sustainable socioeconomic development and realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, assessing inequality for counties continues to be challenging because of th...
Fujian Province launched a talent recruitment policy in 2012 to integrate top university graduates into grassroots government roles, aiming to support green development. This study investigates the impact of recruiting “three-high” talent...
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