Measurement of Spatio-Temporal Differences and Analysis of the Obstacles to High-Quality Development in the Yellow River Basin, China

Zengwei Feng, Yiyan Chen and Xiaolin Yang ()
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Zengwei Feng: Safety and Emergency Management Research Center, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
Yiyan Chen: Safety and Emergency Management Research Center, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
Xiaolin Yang: Safety and Emergency Management Research Center, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 21, 1-16

Abstract: Based on a new development philosophy, this paper constructs an index system for measuring and evaluating high-quality developments in the Yellow River Basin using the entropy weight TOPSIS model and the obstacle degree analysis model to carry out a diagnostic analysis of the spatio-temporal differences in the level of high-quality development and obstacle factors in nine Yellow River Basin provinces from 2010 to 2020. The results show that: (1) During the period 2010–2020, the Yellow River Basin’s high-quality development index showed a rising trend and the subindexes showed a trend of “coordinated development > shared development > green development > open development > innovative development”. However, the overall level of high-quality development in the basin is not high, and there is still much room for improvement. (2) The global Moran’s I of the high-quality development indexes in 2010, 2015 and 2020 are −0.216, −0.204 and −0.103, respectively, indicating that the level of high-quality development in each province and region within the Yellow River Basin is discrete and develops in a spatially unbalanced direction. (3) The obstacle degree analysis shows that green development, innovation development and open development are the main bottlenecks affecting the high-quality development of the basin. The restrictive role of green development is increasingly prominent, and the low level of scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation, serious resource consumption and low resource utilization rate of industrial development, in addition to the low level of openness to the outside world are becoming key factors hindering the high-quality development of the provinces in the Yellow River Basin.

Keywords: the Yellow River Basin (YRB); high-quality development (HQD); spatio-temporal differences; obstacle factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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