• Research on cohesion strategy of land-sea functional oriented zoning based on perspective of land-sea coordination

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-05-18 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: The marine-terrestrial interlaced zone serves as a crucial spatial hub linking the functional zoning of both land and sea areas. Optimizing the ecological function, economic function, and national security function of the marine-terrestrial interlaced zone is of significant importance for promoting the coordination between land and sea functional oriented zoning and achieving their mutual beneficial interaction. It also contributes to enhancing the economic, social, and environmental benefits, effectively allocating resources, and advancing social sustainability. Building upon the clarification of the current development status and characteristics of China’s marine-terrestrial interlaced zone, the research systematically examines the key issues existing in the coordination between land and sea functional oriented zoning at the marine-terrestrial interlaced zone. Furthermore, it puts forward key construction tasks and development pathways aimed at enhancing the coordination functions of the marine-terrestrial interlaced zone.

  • Strategic pattern and optimization of China’s eco-regions during Fifteenth Five-Year Plan period

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-05-18 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: Since the implementation of the major function oriented zoning, the ecological space of key ecological functional areas has continuously expanded, with a significant increase in vegetation coverage. Concurrently, there has been a dual change in population dynamics, characterized by a decrease in total population and an increase in the urban population. Furthermore, significant achievements have been made in economic and social development, and there has been a steady improvement in the functions of ecological security barriers, contributing to an alleviation of tension in human-environment relationships. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is imperative to adhere to the functional orientation primarily focused on providing ecological services or products. While consolidating provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural ecosystem services, there is an increased emphasis on enhancing the quality of these services, thereby constructing a more diversified, stable, and sustainable ecological foundation. Furthermore, exploring compatible functions of eco-product development and utilization promote greening and decarbonization, aiming to establish an inclusive conservation approach that advances modernization characterized by harmony between humanity and nature. In the 15th Five-Year Plan period, ecological regions will not only be crucial components of the new territorial security pattern but also pillars of the new territorial development pattern. Optimization recommendations are as follows. From the perspective of strategic patterns, it is necessary to enhance the spatial connection and supply-demand interaction between ecological security barriers and the territorial development pattern. In detail, continued efforts are needed to consolidate the national ecological security barriers, optimize the pattern of key ecological functional areas, integrate the system of natural protected areas, and strictly adhere to ecological conservation red lines. Moreover, a greater focus should be on upgrading quality of ecosystem service functions through classification, fully implementing the holistic approach to protecting and restoring mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and sand, actively fostering new growth drivers for green development, accelerating the establishment of a refined zoning control system, and synergistically advancing reforms and innovations of institutions and mechanisms. These measures aim to support high-quality development in ecological regions through high-standard protection.

  • Suggestions for layout adjustment of China’s agricultural regions during Fifteenth Five-Year Plan period

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-05-18 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: Adjusting and optimizing the strategic paradigm of China’s agricultural regions in the new era is of great significance to the implementation of the “Greater Food” concept and the building of a strong agriculture. This study takes the layout adjustment of China’s agricultural regions during the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan period as its theme, and firstly summarizes the problems that exist in the main agricultural production regions and the layout changes in grain production bases. Then, in conjunction with the new requirements of the national strategies, the functional types of agricultural regions are refined, the different function positions are clarified, the adjusting idea of the agricultural region’s layout is established, and an optimized scheme is put forward for overall layout of agricultural regions, including eight main agricultural production regions, three sub-production regions, and six agricultural advantage production regions (i.e., “8+3+6”). Finally, this study provides specific suggestions for improving the functions of China’s agricultural regions and proper important construction projects.

  • Strategic priorities of China’s urbanized areas during 15th Five-Year Plan period

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-05-18 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: Urbanized areas are areas whose main function is to provide industrial and service products. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the urbanization rate of China’s population will exceed 70 percent, thus entering a long-time stage of high urbanization levels. The strategic positioning of urbanized areas will be defined as county-level administrative districts with a high concentration of scientific and technological innovation resources, new quality productivity, and new-type industrialization. In terms of strategic layout, the scope of urbanized areas will be optimized to promote the concentration of population and economy in urban agglomerations, metropolitan areas, and central cities, and to strengthen the suburbanization of mega cities, as well as the integrated development of urban and rural areas. In terms of functional upgrading, it will promote the layout of new quality productivity and new industrialization in different urbanized areas according to their comparative advantages, and strengthen the leading role of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and Chengdu-Chongqing area. In terms of spatial quality, it is necessary to promote the livability, intelligence, and resilience of cities.

  • Layout of comprehensive functional regions and recent regional guidelines in China

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-05-18 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: The overall strategy of the “four major sectors”, the regional major strategies and the major functional oriented zoning strategy have strongly supported the regional coordinated development in China. However, it also brings the risk of exacerbating the imbalance and incoordination of regional development due to strategic differences and segmentation. Based on an analysis of the trends in regional coordinated development in China, this study puts forward the layout of China’s comprehensive function regions, which divides the mainland of China into 10 regions: the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, the middle reaches of Yangtze River basin, the upper reaches of Yangtze River basin, the Southern coastal region, the lower reaches of Yellow River basin, the Ji shaped bay area of the Yellow River basin, the Northeast region, the arid region of Northwest China, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with the functional orientation and recent key tasks of different regions addressed. The layout of comprehensive function regions highlights the full coverage of territorial space, and the guidance of core area and major strategies. Moreover, it is conducive to promoting the convergence and integration of the overall strategy of the “four major sectors”, the regional major strategies, and the major functional oriented zoning strategy.

  • Implementation evaluation and outlook of Major Function Oriented Zone

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-05-18 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: Major Function Oriented Zone (MFOZ), an attempt and exploration aimed at ecological civilization during China’s industrial civilization period which is divided into two stages, the stage of MFOZ planning and the stage of the national strategy and basic institution before and after the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress, and the main characteristics of both stages are analyzed. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the strategic thinking of the MFOZ has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the strategic pattern of the MFOZ has been basically formed, the development of the categorized MFOZ has achieved remarkable progress, and the MFOZ mechanism has been initially established. It is proposed that the MFOZ will continue to play a greater strategic and fundamental role in the Chinese-style modernization. As a major strategy, plan and institutional arrangement for implementing the leadership of the Communist Party of China, giving full play to the advantages of the socialist system, and realizing modern spatial governance from top to bottom, the MFOZ should further strengthen the development and protection orientation towards land space, which is people-centered, with high-quality development as the primary task, and new development pattern as the strategic basis, MFOZ should expand new functions that meet the people’s aspirations for a better life and the national security needs, and rely on a sound spatial governance system to establish more precise MFOZ development guidelines and supporting policies.

  • Evolution of urbanized area’s entities and flow space towards high-quality development path in China

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-03-27 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: The eco-environmental conservation and Beautiful China have entered the critical phase. Urbanized areas serve as important spatial carriers in the Beautiful China initiative scenarios, but the most prominent challenges in human-environment relationship and difficult points in building Beautiful China. This study focuses on the physical urban area, and utilizing big data technology to reexamine the spatiotemporal distribution and grouped evolution characteristics of impervious surface in cities, as well as the structural features of urban flow networks from space of flows. Moreover, preliminary thoughts and policy recommendations are provided for promoting high-quality development in urbanized areas of the new era. More efforts should be made in promoting the people-oriented urban construction, introducing the classified guidance on the diversified development path of cities, establishing green, resilient, and healthy urban sustainable models, strengthening technological innovation in smart city, implementing regular urban physical examination, etc., to achieve the realization for Chinese path to urbanization and modernization and Beautiful China initiative.

  • Regime of national park group based on protected area system in Tibetan Plateau

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-03-27 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: China’s national park reform has entered a new stage of promoting reform based on the protected area system. The national park team of the second comprehensive scientific investigation and research on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) took the lead in putting forward the construction plan of the TP protected area, which is dominated by national park in area and function. The TP national park group, including “small group” which refer to national park, and “large group” which refer to different protected areas, innovates the long-term mechanism for the construction of national ecological security barriers on TP. The national park group requires the overall management of the group. Nevertheless, there are still problems on TP, not only within a single national park, but also among national parks and between national park and other protected areas. In line with the new requirements of the reform of the national park, and focusing on the problems of TP protected area system, it is needed to accelerate the establishment of a trans provincial management system led by the central government of the TP national park group, and improve the relevant supporting systems at the same time, such as the establishment of national park and the guarantee of financial funds. It is also necessary to coordinate the multiple objectives of ecological protection and driving the synchronous modernization of local herdsmen. The vast number of herdsmen should participate the management and operation and become the continuous beneficiaries and active supporters of the national park group.

  • Spatial agglomeration and environmental effects of heavy polluting industries in China: Characteristics and enlightenment

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-03-27 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: Heavy polluting industries are the important sources of industrial pollutant. Understanding the spatial agglomeration characteristics, influencing factors, agglomeration mechanism and environmental effects of China’s heavy polluting industries can help identify potential pollution risk areas to cope with increasingly severe environmental pollution problems. Based on the industrial economic data from 1999 to 2021, the spatial distribution and agglomeration characteristics of heavy polluting industries are characterized. It is found that: (1) Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong are the regions with high output value of the development of heavy polluting industries in the past 20 years, while Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and Sichuan are the potential areas for the agglomeration of heavy polluting industries in the future. (2) Production cost (factor endowment), environmental regulation, economic development level, market share, and industrial structure are the key factors affecting the development of heavy polluting industries, and there is an obvious “inverted U” relationship between labor cost and heavy polluting industries development. (3) There is regional heterogeneity in the development of heavy pollution industries. The eastern region has a significant effect of pollution shelter, while the central and western regions have a more obvious orientation to seek low labor costs and resource enrichment. (4) The agglomeration of heavy polluting industries significantly increases the emission of industrial pollutants, and there is an obvious inverted U relationship with environmental pollution, but environmental regulations have not played a role in reducing pollution and emission. On this basis, the countermeasures and policy suggestions are further put forward to deal with the agglomeration of heavy polluting industries and reduce the potential pollution risk, providing reference to achieve the goal of Beautiful China.

  • Progress and prospects on institutional system construction of ecological civilization in China

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-03-27 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the construction of Ecological Civilization (EC) in China has undergone historic, transitional, and comprehensive changes from theory to practice. The construction of system is the core content and the basic guarantee for the success of EC construction. Based on the government documents of EC construction and related research literatures, this study analyzes the formation and evolution characteristics of China’s EC construction system, parses the development process of representative innovation policies, and then predicts the trend of the further deepening reform of EC system. The results show that the relevant policies of EC can be summarized into four categories: green development, environmental governance, ecological protection, and comprehensives. Among them, the number of policies for green development is the most. From the perspective of policy empowerment, the issuing organizations are mainly the central government or multi-ministerial joint effort, with a strong sense of comprehensiveness. Most of the EC policies have gone through the development process of “exploration-pilot test-promotion”. Different EC policies are integrated, and support each other, forming a sound EC system with Chinese characteristics. Therefore, the expected trend of the future deepening reform of China’s EC system includes the following four aspects: strengthening the guarantee of laws and regulations, strengthening the efficient coordination between systems, improving the green and low-carbon development policies, and strengthening the evaluation and research of EC system and Beautiful China.