Study on the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of High-Quality Development in Nine Provinces of the Yellow River Basin

Abstract

High-quality development (HQD) is a positive initiative in China to promote sustainable development. Promoting HQD in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) is a major national strategy for China. The YRB is an important ecological barrier and economic zone in China, which comprises nine provinces, including Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong. The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the HQD of the nine provinces in the YRB. It clarifies the basic connotation of HQD and constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system for HQD according to the principles of comprehensiveness, distinctiveness, openness, refinement and feasibility. The comprehensive evaluation index system includes four dimensions: economic development, technology innovation, society and livelihood, and ecological security, which contain 28 secondary indicators. The combined method of coupling development and entropy weight termed the “technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS)” was selected to make a comprehensive evaluation of the HQD of the nine provinces in the YRB from the time dimension and the space dimension, respectively. It was found that there are still problems, such as the differentiation of HQD, the low comprehensive development degree (CDD), and the low development coupling degree (DCD) in some provinces.

Does county financial marketization promote high-quality development of agricultural economy?: Analysis of the mechanism of county urbanization

“…The estimated results are presented in Table 3. Columns (1) and (5) show the estimates of Eq (1) using OLS mixed regression without any additional control variables. When examining the growth of agricultural economic scale, it was found that financial marketization and its quadratic term have a significant impact at the 1% level.…”

“…However, China’s agricultural sector faces significant challenges, including high input costs, low efficiency, and serious land pollution, which have resulted in poor competitiveness when compared to the urban industrial economy [ 3 ]. The goal of High-quality development of agricultural economy (HQDAE) is to achieve sustainable development of the agricultural economy by improving total factor productivity and promoting agricultural modernization while ensuring national food security, promoting farmers’ income growth, and improving the ecological environment [ 4 , 5 ]. Therefore, finding a sustainable and efficient way to promote HQDAE and achieve the goal of sustainable development with zero hunger and poverty is an urgent issue that needs to be addressed.…”