TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatiotemporal evolution of specialized villages and rural development
T2 - A case study of Henan province, China
AU - Qiao, Jiajun
AU - Lee, Jay
AU - Ye, Xinyue
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this research came from the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grants 41171150, 41329001) and the MOE Project of Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities (? 14JJD790011).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by American Association of Geographers.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Regional economic development is inherently uneven as determined by the local conditions and available resources. Specialized villages (SVs) in China played a very important role in the development and economic transformation in rural areas. By integrating regional spatial structure theory, multilevel network theory, and spatial interface theory, this article examines the spatial and temporal evolution of SVs in Henan Province, China. Results from the analyses show that the development of SVs over time progressed in four stages, each corresponding to important adjustments in national agricultural policy. SVs were distributed unevenly in space and the distribution seemed to be scale-dependent. At a macrolevel, SVs displayed a dispersed pattern over a large area. SVs showed localized clusters at a microlevel, however, also exhibiting a core-periphery structure. Rural economic development in China showed that SVs formed a multilevel network hierarchy. We also observed that SVs were often in transitional areas including urban-rural and plain-mountain interfaces and administrative marginal zones. Finally, spatiotemporal clusters of SVs helped to identify the locations and time periods when SVs grew significantly for analysis of impacts by national policies on rural development.
AB - Regional economic development is inherently uneven as determined by the local conditions and available resources. Specialized villages (SVs) in China played a very important role in the development and economic transformation in rural areas. By integrating regional spatial structure theory, multilevel network theory, and spatial interface theory, this article examines the spatial and temporal evolution of SVs in Henan Province, China. Results from the analyses show that the development of SVs over time progressed in four stages, each corresponding to important adjustments in national agricultural policy. SVs were distributed unevenly in space and the distribution seemed to be scale-dependent. At a macrolevel, SVs displayed a dispersed pattern over a large area. SVs showed localized clusters at a microlevel, however, also exhibiting a core-periphery structure. Rural economic development in China showed that SVs formed a multilevel network hierarchy. We also observed that SVs were often in transitional areas including urban-rural and plain-mountain interfaces and administrative marginal zones. Finally, spatiotemporal clusters of SVs helped to identify the locations and time periods when SVs grew significantly for analysis of impacts by national policies on rural development.
KW - China
KW - Rural development
KW - Spatiotemporal evolution
KW - Specialized villages (SVs)
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U2 - 10.1080/00045608.2015.1086951
DO - 10.1080/00045608.2015.1086951
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84945276007
SN - 2469-4452
VL - 106
SP - 57
EP - 75
JO - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
JF - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
IS - 1
ER -