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Arid Land Geography ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (1): 137-146.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.339

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Measurement and its coordination of the development level of agricultural and rural modernization in China

MENG Xiao(),TIAN Minghua(),DU Lei,MA Shuang   

  1. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2023-07-05 Revised:2023-08-24 Online:2024-01-25 Published:2024-01-26

Abstract:

Promoting the modernization of agriculture and rural areas is a major task in the overall development of a powerful socialist modernization country. This study constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system to measure the level of agricultural and rural modernization development in 30 provinces (cities, autonomous regions) of China from 2010 to 2020 and analyzes their spatiotemporal characteristics. The coupling coordination degree model is introduced to analyze the coordination between agricultural and rural modernization and to explore its spatial correlation. Identify the shortcomings of agricultural and rural modernization development by judging the lagging types. The results are as follows: (1) From 2010 to 2020, the level of agricultural and rural modernization, rural modernization, and agricultural modernization development in China exhibited a fluctuating upward trend. Higher levels of agricultural and rural modernization are concentrated in small areas along the coast, whereas the rest of the areas are at lower levels. Furthermore, there is a significant spatial difference between the development level of agricultural and rural modernization. (2) The coupling and coordination between agricultural and rural modernization are constantly improving; however, the trend of opposition between high and low-value agglomeration areas is increasing. (3) Shanghai, Tianjin, and Beijing have a relatively low level of agricultural modernization development; Shandong, Zhejiang, and Fujian have a relatively low level of rural modernization development, whereas Jiangsu and Guangdong have a balanced level of both. Other regions belong to the category of barely coordinated or below, with backward levels of rural modernization development or low and imbalanced levels of agricultural and rural modernization development.

Key words: agricultural and rural modernization, development level, coupling coordination, spatiotemporal characteristics