Is China’s Rural Revitalization Good Enough? Evidence from Spatial Agglomeration and Cluster Analysis
Xiaodong Qu,
Yuxi Zhang,
Zhenming Li
Abstract:Rural revitalization is an indispensable part of sustainable economic development in China. This paper proposes a new index to capture and assess rural revitalization (RR) in terms of five dimensions, namely, thriving businesses, pleasant living environments, social etiquette and civility, effective governance, and prosperity. Using spatial and cluster analyses on annual data of 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities of China from 2010 to 2020, we find that: (1) China’s RR is growing year by year… Show more
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