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Arid Land Geography ›› 2026, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (4): 643-655.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.710

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Spatiotemporal evolution and obstacle factors of the adaptability between new quality productive forces and high-quality tourism development in Chinese provinces

LU Yayan1,2(), FENG Tian1, YANG Zhaoping2,3, HAN Fang3(), JIA Yingying1   

  1. 1 School of Geography and Tourism, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, Henan, China
    2 Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    3 State Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, Xinjiang, China
  • Received:2025-11-03 Revised:2025-12-05 Online:2026-04-25 Published:2026-04-28
  • Contact: HAN Fang E-mail:luyayan16@mails.ucas.ac.cn;hanfang@ms.xjb.ac.cn

Abstract:

The integrated development of new-quality productive forces and high-quality tourism serves not only as a vital driver of high-quality economic development but also a key measure to strengthening national competitiveness and promoting coordinated regional development. Grounded in the essential requirements of new-quality productive forces and high-quality tourism development and upon clarifying the adaptive logic mechanism that links the two, we develop comprehensive evaluation index systems for each. By applying the entropy weight TOPSIS method, adaptability comprehensive evaluation model, and obstacle degree model, we conduct an in-depth analysis of the developmental levels, spatiotemporal evolution, and key obstacle factors of new-quality productive forces and high-quality tourism development across China’s 31 provinces (including autonomous regions and municipalities) from 2006 to 2022. The results indicate that: (1) From 2006 to 2022, apart from the short-term impact of the pandemic on the tourism industry, the overall developmental levels of both systems exhibited a coordinated upward trend. (2) Spatially, the developmental levels of both systems display significant characteristics of leading in the east, rising in the central, and lagging in the west and northeast. (3) The level of adaptability between the two exhibits a fluctuating upward trend, with the degree of adaptability gradually shifting from extreme inadaptability to moderate adaptability. Spatially, it demonstrates a distinct pattern of “high in the east and low in the west, high in the south and low in the north”. (4) In most provinces, the primary constraints on the development of the new-quality productive forces system are the unmber of artificial intelligence enterprises, revenue from high-tech industries, and the number of newly launched product development projects. Conversely, high-quality tourism development is mainly driven by the growth rate of domestic tourism, the turnover of technology market, and the number of inbound overnight tourists. The research findings provide a scientific foundation for various regions to design differentiated policies that leverage new-quality productive forces to promote high-quality tourism development.

Key words: new quality productive forces, high-quality tourism development, adaptability, spatiotemporal evolution, barrier factors