Factors Influencing the Coordinated Development of Urbanization and Its Spatial Effects: A Case Study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

Abstract

The purpose of the coordinated development of urbanization is to achieve the coordination of the internal subsystems of urbanization and the spatial coordination within the region. The coordinated development level of urbanization and its spatial effect are affected by many factors. Based on the influence mechanism of coordinated development of urbanization, in this study, the evaluation index system of coordinated development of urbanization and the analysis of influencing factors are constructed respectively. The coupling coordination model, fixed effect model and spatial lag model are used to analyze the coordinated development level and influencing factors of urbanization in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and the changes of influencing factors before and after the spatial effects are compared. The results are as follows: although the coordinated development level of urbanization in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region shows a trend of increasing year by year, the spatial differentiation phenomenon is becoming more and more obvious. In this process, the internal and external influencing factors of coordinated development of urbanization play a decisive role. In addition, after the spatial effect is included, the significance level of the influencing factors has changed, and the promotion effect on the coordinated development of urbanization is reduced. The performance is as follows: there is insufficient population transfer and employment among regions, low spatial spillover effect of economic development, strong dependence on land finance, expansion of habitat destruction and low degree of governance coordination, imbalance between public resource allocation and public service supply, lack of unified market-oriented environment and strong government intervention. The key points of future policies and reforms are as follows: under the guidance of the national strategic thinking, we should deepen the reform of the administrative system of the government, actively break through the institutional obstacles restricting the coordinated development of urbanization, continuously optimize the state of the urbanization system and form a joint force of coordinated development.

The Coupling and Coordination of Urban Modernization and Low-Carbon Development

“…At the same time, significant variables that determine the degree of coupling coordination in various provinces are quantified. The following concrete manifes-tations are based on the complete coupling coordination degree of 31 provinces nationwide across the three research periods: currently, the core of urbanization development does not prioritize humanistic literacy [20], and by enhancing humanistic literacy, numerous provinces may significantly enhance the coupling coordination of urban modernization and low-carbon development, and the northeast and western areas' economic development is constrained by locality, and the spatial spillover impact of economic development in diverse regions is generally minimal [38]. Other regions are not significantly impacted by the eastern region's effective economic development because different provinces have not fully utilized the value of policy guidance and other aspects, and local governments have not given enough attention to the coordinated development of the ecological environment and economic situation [39].…”

“…A city's excellent urban modernization development system can support low-carbon development, and a similarly excellent low-carbon development system can support the growth of urban modernization systems. This is based on the scholars' research on the interactive mechanism of the coupling and coordination relationship between multiple factors [20]. We also discovered that it is advantageous for the coordinated development of various systems or elements to address the issue of uneven development between urban modernization systems and low-carbon systems.…”

“…For the coordinated growth of urbanization, X. Sun [20] built an assessment index system and employed spatial lag and fixed impact models to analyze the contributing elements. In the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region, it was discovered that the degree of coordinated urbanization and environmental development had geographic consequences.…”

Research on the coordinated development of provincial urbanization and carbon emission efficiency of construction industry in China

“…The coupling coordination degree cannot reflect the relative development degree between systems, so the relative development degree model is introduced with reference to SUN Yu [31] .…”

Spatiotemporal dynamics and determinants of human-land relationships in urbanization: a Yangtze River Economic Belt case study

“…Since the reform and opening up period, China has experienced the most extensive and rapid urbanization process in recorded global history (Wen and Wang, 2019). Chinese urbanization has progressed in tandem with industrial acceleration, unfolding in three distinct phases: industrial, land, and population urbanization (Sun et al, 2023). The urbanization rate of the permanent resident population surged from 17.92% in 1978 to 64.72% in 2021, reflecting an average annual increase of 1.09 percentage points.…”