Study On Coordinative Development Between Urbanization And Population Carrying Capacity In The Three Gorges Reservoir District (Chongqing Section)

It has been more than one decade since The Three Gorges Project was being built. 1.25 million immigrants have been relocated accumulatively. 12 cities and 114 towns have integrally moved, reservoir economy is developing rapidly. By the end of this year, million immigrant project is entirely completed. Promoting the prosperity and stability of immigrants is one of the most important tasks.After the completion of The Three Gorges Project, sharp human-land conflict is increasing day by day.Natural population carrying capacity refers to the relationship between human and land.So it is declining markedly. To some extent, it is necessary to raise reservoir population carrying capacity. Compared to countryside, city can carry more population. But reservoir urbanization and development lags behind. In order to raise reservoir population carrying capacity, urbanization level must be improved. The study on urbanization and population carrying capacity is not only current academic hot spot, but also the requests of social sustainable development. It is the key guarantee for the sustainable development of urbanization that explore the regular pattern and mechanism between urbanization and population carrying capacity. In this background, coordinative development between urbanization and population carrying capacity in The Three Gorges Reservoir District(Chongqing Section) was preliminarily studied in this thesis.On the basis of 8 Counterpart Aid Towns'data from 1997 to 2007, the thesis established evaluation index system of urbanization and population carrying capacity respectively, obtained urbanization development index and relative integrated population carrying capacity, got coordinative development degree between urbanization and population carrying capacity by model, and then grouped 8 towns according to discrimination standard. In the end, countermeasures were put forward by case study.There are 7 chapters. Study background, significance, scope and framework were presented in the first chapter. Chapter two was theoretical summary. Thirdly, the thesis analyzed present situation of urbanization, established evaluation index system, and then evaluated the result. Based on the method of relative carrying capacity, the fourth chapter calculated relative integrated population carrying capacity. In the fifth chapter, the relationship between urbanization and population carrying capacity was analyzed, their coordinative development degree was calculated and countermeasures of zone control and regulation were studied. Sixth chapter is the case study. In the part of conclusion, the study summarized the full text, and point out the deficiency of the research and the further research to be conducted.