A Quality Assessment of National Territory Use at the City Level: A Planning Review Perspective

Abstract

With increasing urbanization, the populations in China's cities are growing, and the cities themselves are gradually expanding. Competition for access to the national territory's resources is also growing. Thus, the quality of national territory use is worsening. Quality assessments on national territory use can provide a basis for solving this issue. By combining the implications of new urbanization in China, we established an assessment index system relating to the quality of national territory use, from the perspective of harmoniously developing spaces for production, living and ecology. A subjective and objective integrated weighting method was developed based on principal component analysis and planning review. Then, a comprehensive discriminative model was established to assess the quality of national territory use. The evaluation results showed that harmonious development of spaces for production, living and ecology did not occur in either the ecology-oriented or production-oriented regions. The integrated quality of national territory use in the production-oriented region had a significant advantage over that of the ecology-oriented region. The integrated quality of national territory use was highest in Changzhou's city center and vicinity. The results can support the implementation of China's new urbanization strategy and provide evidence to improve the criteria for the intensive use of national territorial resources.

Spatial Simulation of Land-Use Development of Feixi County, China, Based on Optimized Productive–Living–Ecological Functions

“…This resulted in a serious stagnation of ecological space development. This is consistent with the earlier trend of China and other developing countries to develop their economies to some extent at the cost of environmental resources [72][73][74]. In 2015, in order to change the deteriorating local ecological environment, Feixi County adjusted its development focus to maintain economic development while focusing on ecosystem protection, ecological space restoration and ecological environmental management.…”

Research on Sustainable Land Use Based on Production–Living–Ecological Function: A Case Study of Hubei Province, China

“…The early land use in China and other developing countries was at the expense of environment resources to some extent in exchange for rapid economic development [38,39]. According to the results, PF and LF showed a rapid growth trend during 2011-2016, while EF experienced an obvious decline, indicating that the improvement of PF and LF in HP was at the expense of EF to some extent.…”

“…This study placed PF, LF and EF on an equally important level and established a three-dimensional indicator system including 39 indicators, which could evaluate land functions comprehensively. Besides, some indicators, like A2-3 Added-value of high and new technology industry per unit of land area, B3-2 Average rate of participation in basic pension insurance, basic medical care insurance and unemployment Insurance and C1-4 Wetland coverage rate were often not selected because their data would not be easily obtained and calculated [22,37,38]. Based on a long period of multi-channel collection, relevant data were obtained for this study, so these representative indicators were selected.…”

Study on Production–Living–Ecological Function Accounting and Management in China

“…The transmission mechanism between regional sustainable management system, economic activities, and resource utilization activities is not clear enough. The major function zoning is based on the evaluation of resource and environmental carrying capacity, which supports the delineation of three control lines of cropland redline, ecological redline, and urban development boundary [15]. Among them, the ecological red line combines the ecosystem service function and ecological vulnerability to delineate different levels of ecological functional areas.…”