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Arid Land Geography ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (3): 496-505.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.405

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Spatial evolution and influencing mechanism of high-quality development in ethnic minority areas of China

LI Junjia(), ZHAO Meifeng()   

  1. School of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
  • Received:2023-08-05 Revised:2023-09-12 Online:2024-03-25 Published:2024-03-29
  • Contact: ZHAO Meifeng E-mail:li-junjia@foxmail.com;zhaomeifeng@foxmail.com

Abstract:

Achieving high-quality development in ethnic minority areas of China is essential for promoting co-ordinated regional development and building a modern socialist country. Considering eight ethnic provinces and autonomous regions as research areas, this study constructs an evaluation index system for the high-quality development of ethnic minority areas. We apply the entropy weight TOPSIS method, geographical detector, and other methods to study the spatial evolution pattern and influence mechanism of high-quality development in ethnic areas from 2000 to 2020. The results show that: (1) High-quality development in ethnic minority areas has generally maintained an upward trend from 2000 to 2020. From the perspective of spatial differentiation, inter-regional distribution is “high in northwest China, low in south China, southwest China, and Qinghai-Tibet”, interprovincial distribution is “high in north China and low in south China”, and intraprovincial distribution is “polarization and equilibrium coexist”. (2) The high-quality growth rate showed a spatial trend from “high in the northwest and southwest China, low in Qinghai-Tibet and south China” to “high in southwest China and Qinghai-Tibet, low in south and northwest China”. (3) The spatial evolution of high-quality development in minority areas will change from “low level-low growth, low level-medium growth, and medium level-low growth” to “low level-medium growth, low level-high growth, and medium level-medium growth”. (4) The high-quality development level of ethnic minority areas is most affected by investment intensity, followed by income level and government regulation.

Key words: ethnic areas, high-quality development, spatial evolution, geographic detector, influence mechanism