TITLE:
Spatio-Temporal Evolution Mechanism and Influence Factors of the China’s Characteristic Town Policy and Diffusion
AUTHORS:
Hongmei Liu
KEYWORDS:
Characteristic Town, Policy Diffusion, Spatio-Temporal Evolution, Factors
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.7,
July
29,
2020
ABSTRACT: The
characteristic town policy plays a significant carrier of China’s new
urbanization construction and it spreads all over China in a rapid way based on
the method of “absorption-radiation”. Based on the perspective of policy
diffusion theory, this paper analyzes the innovation and adoption
characteristic town policy in 31 provincial administrative units and explores
the influence factors of the characteristic town policy diffusion. The outcomes
demonstrate that in the temporal dimension, the diffusion of the characteristic
town policy among provincial governments is in line with the classic S-shaped
cumulative distribution curve and the diffusion process can be grouped into
three stages. In addition, in the spatial dimension, the characteristic town
policy ranges from the central government to local government and from superior
level to inferior level, showing a certain level of effect. In just
three years after the policy was promulgated, 29 provincial governments have
formulated construction plans for the characteristic towns, cultivating 403 national characteristic towns and more than 10,000 characteristic towns above
the prefectural level. Besides, among the internal and external factors such as economic status,
urbanization rate, area of jurisdiction and central pressure play a vital role
in affecting the diffusion of characteristic town policy.