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Path of Rural Vitalization Based on Coupling Perspective of Township Construction and Resource Environment in Jiangsu Province, China

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Recently, the field of rural vitalization has received extensive research attention. However, only few studies have proposed an approach to rural vitalization from the coupling perspective of township construction and the resource environment. Taking Jiangsu Province of China as the study area, we constructed index systems of township construction function types and resource environments. Based on 875 township study units in Jiangsu, we characterized the township construction function type and resource environment and analyzed the dynamic process of their coupling from 2005 to 2017. The results are as follows: 1) the townships of planting and breeding types in Jiangsu were mainly distributed in northern and central Jiangsu; the townships of business travel, industry, and integrated types were mainly distributed in southern Jiangsu; and the townships of ecological type were irregularly distributed throughout Jiangsu. 2) Resource environment factors and township construction function types in Jiangsu clustered based on their location with some overlap. 3) Spatial variability in the degree of coupling level between township construction and the resource environment in Jiangsu was not apparent, and low coupling levels accounted for most of the study units. The sum of the number of medium and high coupling townships in southern, central, and northern Jiangsu was roughly equal, and the coupling level between township construction and the resource environment in southern Jiangsu evolved remained unchanged, whereas that in the central and northern Jiangsu became imbalanced. 4) In Jiangsu, township construction was mainly constrained by water resources, and the constraint parameters gradually increase. Large variability in resource environment constraint was observed in northern, central, and southern Jiangsu for different township construction function types. Based on these findings, we proposed the implementation of targeted rural vitalization strategies.

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  1. Nan**g Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nan**g, 210008, China

    Jiayu Kang, Xuejun Duan & Zhiyuan Ma

  2. Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nan**g Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nan**g, 210008, China

    Jiayu Kang, Xuejun Duan & Zhiyuan Ma

  3. College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100049, China

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KANG Jiayu: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis and investigation, writing-original draft preparation, writing-review and editing. DUAN Xuejun: conceptualization, methodology. MA Zhiyuan: methodology, writing-review and editing.

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Kang, J., Duan, X. & Ma, Z. Path of Rural Vitalization Based on Coupling Perspective of Township Construction and Resource Environment in Jiangsu Province, China. Chin. Geogr. Sci. 33, 833–849 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-023-1382-9

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