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Arid Land Geography ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (4): 695-706.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.182

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Unevenness and evolutionary trend of high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin from an ecological protection perspective

WANG JiaJia(), ZHANG Ke()   

  1. School of Economic and Management, Inner Mongolia University Science and Technology, Baotou 014010, Inner Mongolia, China
  • Received:2023-04-20 Revised:2023-06-24 Online:2024-04-25 Published:2024-05-17
  • Contact: ZHANG Ke E-mail:jiajiawang0506@163.com;Zkke1016@163.com

Abstract:

Promoting high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin is a necessary path for China’s economic construction to comprehensively move into the high-quality development stage. Objectively evaluating the quality of basin development is the basis for effectively improving the quality of development. Therefore, based on the five development concepts and the connotation of high-quality development, this study constructs an evaluation index system of high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, measures the high-quality development level of 60 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin and the 5 economic growth poles from 2010 to 2021 using the TOPSIS evaluation method, explores the regional unbalanced development and the sources of differences using the Dagum Gini coefficient and the variance decomposition method, and applies the Kernel density estimation method to analyze the evolutionary trend of regional high-quality development. The results are as follows: (1) During the sample period, the high-quality development of cities along the Yellow River shows an “N”-shaped change and an upward trend, with the provincial capitals and coastal and resource-based cities leading the development level in general. (2) The overall difference in the basin is narrowing; however, the gap and the trend of change are different within and between regions. (3) Intergroup disparity is the main spatial source of high-quality development differences, and differences in the supporting environment are the main structural source of differences in the basin and the five economic growth poles. (4) The evolutionary trends of the river basin and the five economic growth poles are different, and most of the regions continue to improve their high-quality development levels. Based on these results, suggestions are made to develop a good top-level design program, strengthen cooperation between regions, create special economic growth poles, avoid homogeneous competition, strengthen the radiation-driven role of central cities, and enhance the soft power of economic development.

Key words: ecological conservation, high-quality development, Dagum Gini coefficient, Kernel density estimation, Yellow River Basin