Evaluation Of Development Quality About Typical Small Towns In The Northwest China

The small towns,the end of the city and the head of the village,are the centers of rural areas and also the bridges between urban and rural development.Under the new background of the national strategy of new urbanization and rural revitalization,the accurate understanding and grasping of the development quality of small cities and towns in the northwest region is significant in promoting regional economic development and improving urbanization solutions.At the same time,improving the development quality of small towns could attract the rural surplus labor force,and it is an important measure to solve rural poverty.The thesis takes the typical small towns in the northwest region as the research object,and collected the relevant data of small towns through on-the-spot surveys,questionnaire surveys,and government symposiums.Besides,it had a comprehensive understanding and grasp on the demographic composition of the surveyed objects,residents' lives,economic and industrial development,as well as the urban space and functions.Through data compilation,the thesis takes the construction quality and residents' life satisfaction as the target system,employing the principal component analysis method and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to calculate the model,after which the development quality was evaluated by combining the model score and the situation of the small towns.What's more,the development model and suggestions of typical small towns are provided,based on which the positive development mechanism of small towns is supplied.The following are the results.(1)The development quality of the small towns in the northwest is poor and there exists a great gap with those in the eastern developed areas.(1)The characteristics of the population show the that population is small,agriculture population accounts for more than urban population,the aging problems are serious;(2)The living and economic levels of residents in small towns are low,with low income(9462 yuan)and large Engel coefficient(36%)and consumption level is survival type.Small town residents have a single travel destination and mode of travel,which belong to traditional lifestyle travel needs.They mainly use walking and electric bicycles for shopping,farming and neighboring relatives in the township area;(3)Small towns have small economic scale and low total amount,but the economic growth isrelatively stable,there is a significant difference that the industries serve agriculture and provide raw materials between the small towns in the eastern region.(4)The infrastructure and public service levels in small towns need to be improved.The relatively invisible infrastructures such as sewage and garbage disposal are incomplete.However,for the obvious public services,the compulsory education,basic medical care as well as sports and leisure are basically guaranteed or relatively complete.The Center-Hinterland-type local business and trade service industry could satisfy people's daily production needs and the household use.And the number of the industrial enterprises is low with a small scale and low-technology as well as the limited labor force.The main problems in the small towns are the lack of development of internal and external forces,and lack of the capacity to absorb surplus rural labor and ability to radiate to rural areas.(2)The small towns adopt five first-level indicators and 20 second-level indicators,that is,people indicators,economic development indicators,urban construction indicators,residents' quality of life indicators,and human settlement indicators as the construction quality evaluation.The results showed that there was a big gap of the construction quality inside the small towns.The construction quality factor of Zhenbeibu Town was high in the research area(F ? 1).Shouyang Town,Tuqiao Town and Shichuan Town were in the middle level(-1<F<1).However,Dingtang Town and Zaojiao Town were at the low level(F?-1).Zhenbeibu Town obtains the superiority in every aspect of the development in the small towns,since it has much developed tourism and the featured agriculture.(3)The life satisfaction evaluation system of the small towns takes three main principles,namely economic development and residents' living,supporting facilities for urban construction,and living environment,and the other nine sub-principles as the criteria,the hierarchical analysis of the index weights and the comprehensive scores of fuzzy comprehensive revealed that the general satisfaction score in the small towns is 3.5382 and most selected the degree of “more satisfied”.Besides,the ranks of the general satisfaction score from high to low were Shouyang Town,Zhenbeibu Town,Tutiao Town,Dingtang Town,Zaojiao Townand Shichuan Town,the scoring gap is small.The degree of satisfaction in smalltowns is in line with the comprehensive score of urban construction quality,indicating the quality of small town construction is a decisive factor of the living standards and satisfaction of residents.Besides,some personal factors such as residents' local attachment,local complex and subjective cognition could have an influence on the living standard as well as their satisfaction.Generally residents' satisfaction is higher then what is expected.(4)The thesis concludes the developing model of the small towns,and makes comments and suggestions on the development models of different small towns from the overall situation of the northwest region.Besides,the mechanism of positive development in these towns is also presented.