Rural development pattern and zoning for rural revitalization strategy

Abstract: Based on the functions of production, living and ecological space, a rural development evaluation model was created in this paper for the rural revitalization strategy by using the multi-source data such as remote sensing images, land use status data and POI data. Taking Pinggu District as an example, the development patterns of local villages and regional characteristics were illustrated to provide guidance for rural development and planning under the rural revitalization strategy. The results showed that: (1) Under the influence of topography and industry development, production function of villages in the plain area basically was stronger than that of mountain villages in Pinggu District. However, driven by the emerging industries such as countryside recreation and tourism, some villages in Huangsongyu Town and alongside the Jinhai Lake had obvious advantages in production function. Living function in rural spaces had a similarity in spatial distribution with local economic development level and density of road networks. Unlike the downtown with high quality public services, convenient transportation and pleasant landscape, other units with highly developed living function only had one of these advantages and the living function should be further improved. The spatial pattern of ecological function was basically opposite to that of the production function. The ecological function of the villages in the mountain area was generally stronger than that of villages in the plain area. (2) The district was divided into seven categories functional zones based on the different combination of production, living and ecological function. The spatial distribution of village functions in Pinggu District basically followed the law of "production function playing a dominant role in plains, living function playing a dominant role in downtown and central villages, and ecological function playing a dominant role in mountains". Production-dominated functional zones and ecological-living combined functional zones were in the majority and took up 27.27% and 24.38% areas respectively. Some improvement strategies on how to improve the future priorities were proposed based on characteristics of functional zones to contribute to rural revitalization. It is suggested that production-dominated function zones should actively develop modern agriculture and tourism to promote the revitalization of rural industries; living-dominated function zones should moderately promote the construction of rural public service facilities to make it ecological and suitable for living in rural areas; ecology-dominated function zones should give priority to ecosystem and ensure the exertion of ecological function; those compound functional zones with two or more dominant function types should develop by considering spatial characteristics of itself and the surrounding villages; those function zones where the production, living and ecological functions are all at a disadvantage should reasonably carry out the spatial planning and reconstruction of the village based on the development urgency of the functions of production-living-ecological space.