Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Influencing Factors of High Quality Development in the Yunnan–Guizhou, Region Based on the Perspective of a Beautiful China and SDGs

Zhuoya Zhang, Zheneng Hu, Fanglei Zhong, Qingping Cheng and Mingzhu Wu
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Zhuoya Zhang: School of Geography and Ecotourism, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
Zheneng Hu: School of Economics, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China
Fanglei Zhong: School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China
Qingping Cheng: School of Geography and Ecotourism, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
Mingzhu Wu: School of Geography and Ecotourism, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-19

Abstract: The high-quality development in the Yunnan–Guizhou region (YGR) is a significant support for the high-quality development of China. It will help shape a new pattern of regional coordinated development. Referring to a Beautiful China and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) evaluation indexes, we built an evaluation index system that puts the high-quality development at its heart. This system includes the resource load, economic development, ecological environment protection, and social progress. Taking 25 prefecture-level cities of the YGR as study subjects, the authors used the entropy weight–TOPSIS model to evaluate high-quality development and evolution. Then, the authors used the Geographical Detector (GD) method and a Geographic-Weighted Regression (GWR) model to analyze factors and mechanisms of the evolution of high-quality development. The results suggest that the changes of urban built-up area, per capita GDP, total foreign trade value, tourism revenue, and total investment of fixed assets investment are the primary factors of spatial differentiation of this evolution. The influence and direction of each factor are different in different periods, with apparent spatio-temporal heterogeneity. From 2005 to 2018, the synergistic effect of changes in total foreign trade value and tourism revenue is the leading force in shaping the evolution pattern. The high-quality development of the YGR generally presents the spatial pattern of “central Yunnan–central Guizhou core dual drive”, “high in east and low in west”, and the evolution speed presents a development characteristic of “low speed–relatively high speed–high speed”. The research can provide a reference for high-quality and precise development and decision-making in the YGR.

Keywords: Yunnan–Guizhou region; high-quality development; index system; time–spatial evolution; geographical detector; geographic-weighted regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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