Assessment Based On Inclusive Development Of Guangdong Underdeveloped Areas

Unbalanced regional development is a social focus, not only in economic field, but also inother fields such as social environment, education and medical treatment. As a new concept ofdevelopment view, Inclusive development is recognized worldwide, especially in Asia.Different from Sustainable development, the purpose of Inclusive development is to let allpeople share development achievements, pay more attention to the development fairness andlivelihood. But so far, the research of Inclusive development has just started, and can’t fit intoday’s society. How to assess a region’ Inclusive development level is an important issue. Inother words, how to establish Inclusive development assessment has become the focus of theresearch.Since the reform and opening, Guangdong’s economic has been has been ranked first. Butwith the economic development, unbalanced development of region is extremely obvious, andthe research in Guangdong underdeveloped areas is too little. In chapter one, this paperintroduces the related theory and concept of inclusive development. In the chapter three, wefurther analysis the similarities and differences between Sustainable development andInclusive development. After analysis the two chapters, we recognize that Inclusivedevelopment is a further extension of sustainable development, and we further confirm thatInclusive development is a new development which is more focus on equity developmentopportunities and benefit-sharing. Hereby, we establish an assessment system of Inclusivedevelopment. In this assessment system, we have divided Inclusive development into threesubsystem: economic development, social development, Construction of livelihood. Usingprincipal component analysis and cluster analysis in the assess process, we found NorthernGuangdong have got the highest score in Guangdong underdeveloped areas, EasternGuangdong following, Western Guangdong worst. Contrasting to the Pearl River Delta andless developed regions，we identified the factors that affect the Inclusive development ofGuangdong underdeveloped areas. In summary the research, we found that the way to theinclusive development of the underdeveloped areas is to adjust the industrial structure andoptimize income distribution, also we have analysis on the two aspects.