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Arid Land Geography ›› 2025, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (12): 2220-2231.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2024.788

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Measurement, regional differences and dynamic evolution of the coupled coordinated development level of new urbanization and harmonious villages

LI Jin(), PU Juan(), LI Mingliang, ZHAO Lanlan, YU Guoxin   

  1. College of Economics and Management, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, Xinjiang, China
  • Received:2024-12-25 Revised:2025-02-16 Online:2025-12-25 Published:2025-12-30
  • Contact: PU Juan E-mail:18306181665@163.com;pujuan0310@126.com

Abstract:

To promote urban-rural integration in China in the new era, it is necessary to explore the coordinated development of new urbanization in a harmonious villages. Using panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2022, we construct a comprehensive index for the levels of new urbanization and harmonious villages and analyze their level of coordinated development, regional differences, and dynamic evolution by employing the coupled coordination degree model, Dagum’s Gini coefficient, Kernel density estimation, and Markov chains. The results show that: (1) The level of new urbanization and harmonious villages shows a growing trend. (2) The coupling between new urbanization and harmonious villages is low and mostly in the stage of near-disorder, and the level of coordination generally decreases from east to west. (3) The differences within the eastern region are the largest, and the inter-regional differences are the main source of the gaps in the levels of coupling of new urbanization and harmonious villages. (4) The absolute differences between regions are decreasing, with a certain gradient effect. (5) There is a tendency for the coupling of new urbanization and harmonious villages to increase, with spatial spillover effects. In the future, we should give full play to the dual promotion of new urbanization and harmonious villages, stimulate local internal energy in accordance with conditions, build a regional learning and exchange platform, and enhance the coordinated development of new urbanization and harmonious villages.

Key words: new urbanization, harmonious villages, degree of coupling coordination, regional disparity, dynamic evolution