TITLE:
Enhancing Urban Comprehensive Capacity for Urbanization Development: An Empirical Application of China’s Southwest Ethnic Region
AUTHORS:
Linying Zhou, Yuanying Jiang
KEYWORDS:
China’s Southwestern Ethnic Region, Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity, Coupling Coordination, Time and Space Differentiation
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.7 No.2,
June
27,
2019
ABSTRACT: We can say that enhancing the capacity and functionality of urbanization
is the key to China’s development. However, the urbanization development in
various regions of China is unbalanced, especially in the southwestern ethnic
region with relatively lagging behind the development. As a yardstick of urbanization
development, urban comprehensive carrying capacity can provide a reference for
urbanization development. Therefore, in order to promote the urbanization
process in the southwestern ethnic region, this paper constructed an index
system for measuring the urban comprehensive carrying capacity and used entropy
method and coupling coordination degree model to calculate the urban
comprehensive carrying capacity in China’s southwest ethnic region in 2003-2016
and the coupling coordination between its elements. The results display that
the overall carrying capacity of cities in the southwestern ethnic region shows
an upward trend in 2003-2016: By analyzing the evolution of different elements,
improving traffic and communication capacity significantly, population and
environmental carrying capacity are relatively high; while the degree of
coupling coordination of each element is not generally high, and the
comprehensive carrying capacity and element coupling coordination degree of
cities show that the spatial and temporal patterns are “double high” and “double low”.