Abstract:

Based on the perspective of urban-rural integration， the data on per capita net income of farmers at town scale were collected through various channels， and regional economic spatial pattern of the eight provinces in the Yellow River Basin was analyzed. In detail， based on the per capita net income of farmers， the urban-rural integrated level based on income ratio of urban-rural residents under the national， province， city and county perspective was analyzed. Based on the construction of the measurement indicators， this paper analyzed the regional economic spatial pattern at township scale by 7 098 towns’ data in the Yellow River Basin， and then explored its influencing factors. The results were shown as follows. Firstly， from the perspective of the urban-rural economic structure of urban-rural integration， there are certain differences in economic spatial pattern in the whole region. The areas with large urban-rural income gap were mainly distributed in the south of Inner Mongolia and west of Henan， the areas with small urban-rural income gaps include most of Shandong， central and Western Henan and parts of Inner Mongolia. Secondly， from the perspective of spatial correlation， the basic spatial pattern of urban-rural integration level was similar at national， provincial， urban， and county level， significant HH areas and significant LL areas were dominant in agglomeration pattern. It was worth mentioning that the spatial integrated pattern by the ratio of the average income of urban residents to the per capita net income of country town ratio showed a significant polarization distribution. The significant LL area was distributed in most of Shandong， central and Northern Henan and part of Inner Mongolia， while the significant HH area was concentrated in the periphery of Shanxi， Gansu and southern Qinghai. Thirdly， based on quantitative analysis of OLS model， spatial lag model and spatial error model， the spatial differentiation pattern was mainly affected by the employment of the secondary and tertiary industries， the proportion of the population in the built-up area， the per capita industrial output value， and the proportion of employees in the secondary and tertiary industries. The proportion of industrial output value and built-up area had little impact on the improvement of economic development level at township scale.

Key words: township economy, urban-rural integration, spatial pattern, influencing factors, Yellow River Basin