The Spatial Organization Evolution And County Management Of China’s Coastal Cities Under The Marine Development Strategy

At present, China’s coastal cities are entering the critical period of marine development. After the report of18th National Congress of CPC put forward the marine powerful nation, the Twelfth Five-Year Plan put forward land-sea development. More than80%of the regional planning at the national level focus on the development of marine economy and land-sea development, over90%of the54coastal cities have put forward marine development strategy, marine development has become an important driving force of economic and social development in China in new era. In this context, the coastal cities’ spatial organization are not only evolving in multiple levels, but also exists space conflict, space competition and many other issues. How to optimize the spatial organization of coastal cities, and promote the marine development of China’s coastal cities, is the core issue of this research. As the basic unit of the coastal cities’economic development and marine functional zoning compilation, County management plays an important role. This study are looking forward to exploring the optimization of the coastal cities spatial organization and the strategy of the county management.The first chapter is the introduction part, it will explain the background and the main question of the study, and define the key concepts of this study, such as marine development, urban spatial organization, county management, the division of marine functional zonation. This chapter also makes the literature review which focus on the marine development, the organization of urban space, district and county management, marine functional area. It will provide a theoretical preparation for the study.The second and the third chapters will explore the evolution process and mechanism of the coastal cities spatial organization from the city level and the group level. On city level, according to the difference of the coastal cities’ initial location, the evolution of54coastal cities spatial organization can be divided into three models,"Inland-T type Structure"(33cities),"Coastal-ribbon Group"(18cities),"Land-island Interaction"(3cities). Among them, resource endowments, China and the West struggle, technological progress, administrative regulation become an important factor in promoting the evolution of the spatial organization. On group level, the life functional groups (marine eco-cities,etc.), the industrial functional groups (marine industrial zone, etc.) and the recreation functional groups (coastal tourist areas, etc.) have different spatial organization, which reflect the differences in the degree of dependence on marine resources. Overall, the majority of54coastal cities are entering the critical period of spatial organization evolution, it need to have more discussion on the optimization of spatial organization.The forth chapter are prepare to reveal the potential problems in the evolution of coastal cities’ spatial organization. The paper have find that the Chinese coastal cities’ spatial organization evolution faces three changes, such as the urban form, the regional form and the relationship of land-sea, in which hidden three problems such as form cultivation, manage coordination and land-sea conflict. The critical aspect to solve the problem lies in the county management innovation.The fifth, sixth and seventh chapters expand the study of the urban spatial organization optimization respectively, which focus on the basic issue (the reform of administrative divisions), the key issue (marine function zonation), the important issue (management system and policies) of the county management. In terms of administrative divisions reform, the quantity, scale, location of administrative divisions of the current coastal cities are influenced by marine development and show a significant north-south differences. To Optimize the urban spatial organization, we must optimize the pattern of the counties administrative region, make the administration center and the administrative boundary play the collective effects on the spatial organization. In terms of the marine function zonation, the environment of marine functional zones in China is not optimistic. We will explore the path of the urban spatial organization optimization under the influence of marine function zonation. Base on the function, structure, system and other features of the marine functional zonation, we analysis the path of county management in order to solve the problem of the land-sea conflict. In terms of the system and policy, the research of the institutional level and institutional coordination are essential. The development of various types of functional groups can not be separated from the administrative level.The effective setting of the organization, the stakeholders’ substantive participation will help crack the problem of the land-sea management coordination under marine development. On this basis, we take the Binhai New Area as an example, and put forward some policy such as promoting form and function enhancement, consolidating the management ability and service ability, coordinating marine development and ecological protection etc.The eighth chapter is the conclusion and discussion part of this study. It further discusses the evolution and the mechanism of the costal cities’spatial organization, the reform of the county administrative divisions, the resolution of land-sea conflict, the innovation of system and policy. The study is expected by optimizing the coastal cities’ spatial organization, provide a scientific basis for marine development and promotion of land-sea coordinate strategy.