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Arid Land Geography ›› 2021, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (6): 1836-1846.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000–6060.2021.06.30

• Regional Development • Previous Articles    

Effects of “ecological-production-living” land changes on ecosystem services in ecological migration area: A case of Hongsibu District in Ningxia

AN Siwen1(),MA Caihong1,2(),YUAN Qianying1,HUA Yuqi1   

  1. 1. School of Resources and Environment, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, Ningxia, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Resource Evaluation and Environmental Control in Ningxia (China and Arab) Arid Areas, Yinchuan 750021, Ningxia, China
  • Received:2020-11-24 Revised:2021-04-05 Online:2021-11-25 Published:2021-12-03
  • Contact: Caihong MA E-mail:aswen97@163.com;mchyanni@163.com

Abstract:

The field of land use transformation aims to study the transformation process of land use forms corresponding to economic and social development. One of its manifestations is to study the transformation among the three leading functions of land, captured by the term ecological-production-living. The Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the national space development goal of “building intensive and efficient production space, livable and moderate living space, and ecological space with clear mountains and beautiful waters”, which has made land use transformation and its ecological effect from the perspective of ecological-production-living a hot topic in the field. Human activities have a significant impact on land use and the ecological environment in ecologically immigrated areas with large population changes. Hongsibu District in Ningxia, China is the main battlefield of a large-scale national water conservation project (the Ningxia Poverty Alleviation and Yellow River Irrigation Project), and it is also the largest single ecological migration area in China. Therefore, the impact of land use transition on the value of ecosystem services from the perspective of production-living land use can not only enrich the research content of this aspect at the county level but also provide a reference for decision-making regarding land use and ecological construction in arid ecological migrant areas. In this paper, image data from 2000, 2009, and 2018 were processed using the ArcGIS 10.6 software and a land distribution map. Various measurement methods and GIS spatial analysis tools were adopted to conduct a quantitative study on the transformation of production-living land and the changes in ecological services in the Hongsibu District from 2000 to 2018. The results are as follows: (1) From 1990 to 2018, production of ecological land decreased by 3.42×10 4 hm2 in Hongsibu District, whereas that of ecological land increased by 1.24×104hm2. The ecological production space also increased by 0.16×104hm2, whereas the land for living and production was increased by 2.02×104 hm2. (2) From 1990 to 2018, the ecosystem service value of Hongsibu District increased by 11.18×108 yuan. Vegetation restoration greatly improves regional ecosystem service value, but the encroachment of construction land on other lands will reduce the regional ecosystem service value. (3) Hongsibu District has formed a basic pattern including living, production, and ecological land in the central irrigation area, with the surrounding ecological space also being ecological-production-living land, and the land development pattern has been gradually optimized. (4) In future development, we should jointly promote the coordinated management of mountains, rivers, forests, farmland, lakes, and grasslands; improve the quality of existing ecological land; construct an ecological network of green space; and optimize and improve the structure and function of ecosystem services. Additionally, we should actively promote ecological industrialization and industrial ecology. Through the integrated development of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, we can realize an effective combination of intensive development of production space, quality and efficiency improvement of ecological space, and beautiful and livable living space, to promote ecological environmental protection and high-quality development.

Key words: “ecological-production-living” land, land use transition, ecosystem service value, Hongsibu District