Rural settlement spatial patterns and effects: Road traffic accessibility and geographic factors in Guangdong Province,China

Journal of Geographical Sciences - Based on land use classification data of remote sensing images, using kernel density, the minimal cumulative resistance model of road traffic accessibility, and a...     

中国城市人力资本水平与人口集聚对创新产出的影响

基于中国2007—2012年287个地级及以上城市的创新投入要素和专利申请量的面板数据（未含港澳台地区数据）,采用面板固定效应模型和面板分位数回归模型,揭示人力资本水平提升对区域创新产出的影响机制及其区域异质性,以及人口空间集聚对人才创新驱动作用的调节机制。结果表明：① 平均而言,人力资本水平越高的城市,创新产出水平越高,但人口集聚程度与创新产出水平并不存在显著的关联;② 人力资本水平提升对创新的驱动作用存在区域差异,在创新等级越低的城市中其作用效果越强;③ 人口空间集聚强化了人力资本水平对创新的驱动作用,城市规模扩大促进了知识的溢出;④ 人口空间集聚调节作用的显现需要达到一定的创新基础门槛,城市创新等级越高,调节作用越强。因此,各地方政府应当结合当地发展的实际情况,制定适宜的人才培育和人才引进策略,合理引导人才流动。     

广东省乡村聚落空间分布的影响机制及研究内容框架展望（英文）

Based on land use classification data of remote sensing images, using kernel density, the minimal cumulative resistance model of road traffic accessibility, and a logistic regression model, the characteristics of the spatial pattern and the main factors influencing it were quantitatively examined in Guangdong Province from 1990 to 2013. The framework of the research concerning rural settlement evolution and its effect mechanisms were also discussed and generalized for the future. The results are as follows:(1) The spatial distribution of rural settlements showed spatial directivity of low altitude, low slope, and adjacent to rivers, as well as to villages and towns; thus a special pattern was formed, which was dense on the plains, sparse in mountainous areas, and included two core high density regions of rural settlements in the Chaoshan plain in the east and the Zhanjiang plain tableland region in the west. The spatial distribution of rural settlements was located along the rivers, valleys, and roads with traffic in the mountainous regions surrounding the Pearl River Delta region.(2) In addition to the spatial orientation of the open road, it was important to show that the accessibility of road traffic to the township has had the greatest influence on the spatial distribution of the rural settlements. The connected transport network between towns and villages is significant for rural transformation as a comprehensive increase in township production and service capacity will be the key to optimizing the town-village system in rural areas.(3) Elevation and slope were two basic but influential factors that have affected the distribution, scale, and form of rural settlements. The attributes of the physical geography are the first elements in optimizing village layout and planning spatial reconstruction.(4) In the current Internet and social media era, the reconstruction of market network system orders connects with the global market network system in rural areas. The rural life service circle will be constructed with the township at its core to explore the theory and practice of spatial reconstruction, including its production, life and ecology, and socio-cultural heritage and protection. It will also allow for exploration of the rural settlements' evolution, rural spatial production, rural social networks, group behavior, social autonomy, and social and cultural fields, which will bethe core focus of China's rural spatial reconstruction research against a background of globalization.