Assessment And Improvement Of The Self-development Capacity Of Concentrated Contiguous Destitute Areas In China

Concentrated contiguous destitute areas are the most poor area in China,which located in ecology fragile area,inter-provincial junction and concentrated area of nationalities.In 2011,the government of China implemented the Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China's Rural Areas(2011-2020).The outline emphasize that 14 concentrated contiguous destitute areas are the key point of poverty reduction program.The 14 concentrated contiguous destitute areas stretch across 21 provincial administrative regions,including 680 counties.In concentrated contiguous destitute areas,there are a number of poor population and less poverty reduction funds,with lower regional self-development capacity.With the accelerating poverty reduction process,the future poverty reduction task will be more difficult.Xi Jinping,the president of China,pointed that the government should pay more attention to poverty-stricken areas and ensure the solution of regional overall poverty by 2020.Regional self-development capacity is an important driving force for anti-poverty and development in the backward areas.Thus,the assessment and improvement of regional self-development capacity can boost the economics of concentrated contiguous destitute areas,which has very important practical significance.Based on the theory of regional self-development capacity,an indicator system is established to evaluate the regional self-development capacity of 14 concentrated contiguous destitute areas from 4 dimension,namely,industry capacity,market capacity,space capacity and soft power.The results indicate that regional self-development capacity of concentrated contiguous destitute areas in low level and imbalanced in2011-2015.Chronologically,the regional self-development capacity is continuously improving.From the space perspective,the regional self-development capacity of concentrated contiguous destitute areas is high in east and low in southwest;the regional self-development capacity of county in concentrated contiguous destitute areas was low in interior and high in edge.And the results show that the industry capacity is the absolute constraints of regional self-development capacity in concentrated contiguous destitute areas.On the other hand,according to different types of relative constraints,the 14 concentrated contiguous destitute areas are divided into 5 types.On the basis,the research propose different countermeasure and suggestion for differentconstraints types to improve the level of regional self-development capacity.