Evolution characteristics and policy implications of new urbanization in provincial capital cities in Western China.

ABSTRACT: New urbanization is the fundamental approach to achieve the healthy, stable, and sustainable development of the Chinese economic society. It is also the basic outlet to eliminate the "dual economic structure" in urban and rural areas. Based on the connotation of new urbanization, we constructed an evaluation system using population development, economic development, quality of life, infrastructure, resources and environment, and urban and rural harmonious development. The entropy and weighted summation methods were used to measure the level of new urbanization for 11 provincial capital cities from 2005 to 2018, and policy implications were analyzed correspondingly. The results show that there are significant differences in the development levels of new urbanization in these cities, with in

SUBMITTER: Ya-Feng Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7250444 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature