Ma Yajun, Yu Zhengyong, Liu Wei, Ren Qiang
College of Tourism, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China.
School of Business and Tourism Management, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.
PLoS One. 2025 Jan 16;20(1):e0313125. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0313125. eCollection 2025.
The digital economy injects new vitality into rural revitalization and new-type urbanization to achieve rural industrial transformation, while the countryside and the city provide the soil for the development of the digital economy. This research establishes the rural revitalization (RR), new-type urbanization (NU), and digital economy (DE) system and uses the coupled coordination degree (CCD) model and obstacle degree (OD) model to study the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and obstacle factors of the composite system in China from 2011 to 2021. The result showed that: (1) the comprehensive development level of the composite systems is on an upward trend year by year, but still shows a low-quality state; (2) the CCD of China's provinces shows a spatial evolution pattern of high in the east and low in the west; (3) The obstacle factors of the RR, NU, DE subsystem are mainly involved the number of rural doctors and health workers, local financial income per capita and science and technology expenditure, and the digital finance coverage breadth index. These results suggested that Strengthening the synergy between China's urban-rural integrated development and digital construction in the future hinges upon providing valuable decision-making insights to facilitate the pursuit of regionally differentiated development and the achievement of sustainable development goals.
数字经济为乡村振兴和新型城镇化注入新活力，以实现乡村产业转型，而农村和城市为数字经济发展提供土壤。本研究构建了乡村振兴（RR）、新型城镇化（NU）和数字经济（DE）系统，并运用耦合协调度（CCD）模型和障碍度（OD）模型，研究2011—2021年中国复合系统的时空演变特征及障碍因素。结果表明：（1）复合系统综合发展水平逐年呈上升趋势，但仍处于低质量状态；（2）中国各省耦合协调度呈现出东高西低的空间演变格局；（3）RR、NU、DE子系统的障碍因素主要涉及乡村医生和卫生人员数量、人均地方财政收入、科技支出以及数字金融覆盖广度指数。这些结果表明，未来加强中国城乡一体化发展与数字建设之间的协同，关键在于提供有价值的决策见解，以推动区域差异化发展并实现可持续发展目标。
