Study on the characteristics and territorial types of rural transformation development: The case of "Southern Jiangsu-Northern Shaanxi" transect
乡村转型发展特征评价及地域类型划分——以“苏南-陕北”样带为例

Pushing forward rural transformation development is one of the key countermeasures to narrow the urban-rural development gap and to achieve the urban-rural coordination.This paper establishes the assessing indicator systems for studying rural transformation development,classifies the territorial types of rural transformation development in the "Southern Jiangsu-Northern Shaanxi" transect,and analyzes the characteristics of different types.The major conclusions are drawn as follows.(1) During 2000-2005,the characteristics of rural development of the counties in the transect show a universal low development level but a relatively high transformation level,which resulted in the uncoordinated development of urban and rural areas,but the situation was improved during 2005-2008.(2) The integrated assessing results of rural transformation development in "Southern Jiangsu-Northern Shaanxi" transect show strong relationship between the regional transformation characteristics and its own basic attributes,such as location,economic basis,development mode,and policy objective.(3) Based on the four regional attributes of geomorphological features,transformation characteristics,developing speed and urban-rural relationship,eight territorial type regions are divided in the "Southern Jiangsu-Northern Shaanxi" transect,and the research outcomes indicated that various location conditions and resources endowment among different regions contribute to the adoption of different modes of rural transformation development,which will result in the different changes in resources and environment system and urban-rural economic system.