Characteristics and Driving Factors of the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of County Urban–Rural Integration—Evidence from the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region, China

Jian Tian, Junqi Ma, Suiping Zeng () and Yu Bai
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Jian Tian: School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Junqi Ma: School of Architecture, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin 300384, China
Suiping Zeng: School of Architecture, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin 300384, China
Yu Bai: Tianjin Key Laboratory of Smart City Planning, Tianjin 300190, China

Land, 2025, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-26

Abstract: Urban–rural integration realises the coordinated development and prosperity of urban and rural areas as a whole by optimising the allocation of resources and the flow of factors, and its connotations have been extended from a single dimension to multiple dimensions such as people, land and industry. The Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region has a typical “Core–Periphery Structure”, and this paper took the 187 county units within the region as the research object, taking into account indicators of development and coordination to construct an evaluation index system of urban–rural integration of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region counties in the dimensions of “people–land–industry”. Global principal component analysis was used to measure the evolutionary pattern of the urban–rural integration level between 2005 and 2020, and its spatiotemporal drivers were analysed by using the Geographical and Temporal Weighted Regression model (GTWR). The results of the study show that (1) the level of urban–rural integration in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region showed an increasing trend during the 15-year study period, the high-value areas of urban–rural integration were mainly distributed in Beijing and the Bohai Rim region in the eastern part of the Tianjin–Hebei region, and the level of urban–rural integration of the peri-urban county units of the city was better than that of the remote counties and cities as a whole. (2) In terms of spatial agglomeration, all dimensions were characterised by significant spatial agglomeration. The degree of agglomeration was categorised as urban–rural comprehensive integration (U-RCI) > urban–rural industry integration (U-RII) > urban–rural land integration (U-RLI) > urban–rural people integration (U-RPI). (3) In terms of spatial and temporal driving factors for urban–rural integration, the driving role of U-RPI, U-RLI and U-RII for U-RCI has gradually weakened during the past 15 years, and urban–rural integration in the counties shifted from a single role to a more central coordinated and multidimensional driving role.

Keywords: Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region; “people–land–industry” dimension; county unit; urban–rural integration; GTWR model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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