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Arid Land Geography ›› 2025, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (3): 517-527.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2024.291

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Spatial pattern and influencing factors of high-quality development in China’s old revolutionary areas from the perspective of main functions

FU Xiao1,2(), HUANG Yingmin1,3()   

  1. 1. Institute of High-Quality Development of Old Revolutionary Areas in the New Era, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, Jiangxi, China
    2. School of Civil Engineering and Surveying Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, Jiangxi, China
    3. School of Architecture and Design, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, Jiangxi, China
  • Received:2024-05-08 Revised:2024-07-04 Online:2025-03-25 Published:2025-03-14
  • Contact: HUANG Yingmin E-mail:fuxiao199712@163.com;huangyingmin693@163.com

Abstract:

County areas are important spatial carriers for promoting high-quality new urbanization. They play a critical but challenging role for achieving regional coordinated development strategies. This article is based on the perspective of main functional areas and establishes a high-quality development evaluation index system. Using methods such as the coupling coordination degree model and multiple linear regression analysis, we reveal the spatial pattern and influencing factors of high-quality development in five key old revolutionary areas and counties of China in 2020. The results are as follows: (1) Overall, the high-quality development index shows the lead of the former Central Soviet Area and the Dabie Mountains Old Revolutionary Base Area, followed by the Sichuan and Shaanxi Old Revolutionary Base Area and the Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia Old Revolutionary Base Area, with the lowest values in the Zuoyoujiang Old Revolutionary Base Area. High-value areas are mainly concentrated in the former Central Soviet Area, whereas low-value areas are mostly concentrated in the provincial border areas and the Zuoyoujiang Revolutionary Base Area. (2) From the perspective of the main functional areas, the high-quality development index of each region shows the characteristics of key development zones>agricultural product main production areas>key ecological functional areas, and the positioning of the main functional areas is significantly related to their advantageous dimensions. Innovation-driven high-quality economic development is an important path to narrowing the main differences. (3) From the analysis of influencing factors, natural environmental factors and economic and social factors jointly affect regional development. There is no common driving factor among the three main functional areas, but the driving effects of the economic and social factors represented by per capita GDP, human capital, and labor force are more significant. This research provides theoretical and empirical support for promoting high-quality development of different functional districts and counties in old revolutionary areas and theoretical and policy implications for promoting regional coordinated development and constructing differentiated revitalization policies for old revolutionary areas.

Key words: high quality development, main functional area, comprehensive evaluation, influencing factors, old revolutionary areas, China