Sustainable Coupling Coordination and Influencing Factors of Sports Facilities Construction and Social Economy Development in China

Lin-Hong Zheng, Nor Eeza Zainal Abidin (), Mohammad Nazri Mohd Nor, Yue-Yun Xu () and Xiao-Wei Feng
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Lin-Hong Zheng: Faculty of Sports and Exercise Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
Nor Eeza Zainal Abidin: Faculty of Sports and Exercise Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
Mohammad Nazri Mohd Nor: Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
Yue-Yun Xu: School of Physical Education, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou 362000, China
Xiao-Wei Feng: Faculty of Sports and Exercise Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-17

Abstract: Sports facilities are a crucial physical safeguard and means of sustaining sporting activities. The steady and healthy development of sports facilities can promote the sustainable development of the social economy. In order to explore the coordination status and influencing factors between sports facilities construction and the social economy, this paper built a coupling coordination evaluation index system and dynamic factor index system for the sports facilities construction and social economy development by using the entropy method, coupling coordination model and random effect model. This paper assessed the comprehensive level, coupling coordination relationship, and influencing factors of the sports facilities and social economy development of nine cities in the Fujian Province across China from 2016 to 2020. The results show the overall level of sports facilities construction in Fujian is better than the social economy development, and the two systems are interacting with each other. The level of coupling and coordination gradually changes from good coordination to quality sustainable coordination. The coupling coordinated relationship between the two systems is developing in a positive way. In addition, industrial development, the level of urban development, and environmental development as influencing factors have a clear positive effect on the degree of coupling coordination. This study provides several recommendations for cities to achieve sustainable coordinated development. This paper also may provide a direction and path for future research.

Keywords: sports facilities construction; social economy development; coupling coordination; influencing factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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