Abstract:

The urbanrural association refers to under the relative scarcity of resources,what prompted the different ranks of these resources to implement the most effective configuration and circulation in the community form (especially the city and countryside).City and countryside as the two most basic geographical units in regional economic and social development,are in close contact with economic,cultural,political and other aspects since their arising.Urbanrural association is a major problem in Chinas urbanization process.The contradictions between the urban and rural,the gap between urban and rural areas and the “three rural” issues have become an important research direction of disciplines such as geography,sociology and economics.Sixtynine spatial units of Zhejiang Province are the research object in this paper.According to the meaning and characteristics of ruralurban association,the comprehensive evaluating index system of urbanrural association was constructed.Based on principal component analysis and exploratory spatial data analysis methods,urbanrural association of Zhejiang Province from 2001 to 2011 was quantitatively measured,and characteristics of spatial and temporal evolution and spatial association were analyzed.The study results show as follows.(1) Each countys urbanrural score showed varying degrees of growth,meaning that urbanrural economic and social coordination had been continually optimized.(2) Urbanrural association showed spatial differences.Urbanrural association of eastern coastal region was generally higher than the western hilly region,and prefecturelevel city was significantly higher than countylevel city.(3) Ruralurban association exhibited strong characteristics of spatial concentration.The strong association of region located in Hangzhou Bay area of Yangtze River Delta,and weak association of region was concentrated in southwestern Zhejiang hilly area.Finally,urban and rural economic development,road infrastructure improvement,urban and rural elements contact enhancement,urban and rural policy system optimization were put forward as the urban and rural areas association evolution mechanism of main motive force in Zhejiang Province