Quality evaluation and improvement strategies of rural residential areas utilization from the perspective of human and land coordination

Abstract: High-quality utilization of rural residential areas has been a concrete manifestation of rural revitalization. It is highly necessary to comprehensively evaluate the quality of rural residential areas, thereby optimizing the allocation of rural factors for village planning. Taking the Pinggu District of Beijing as an example, the utilization quality of rural residential areas was evaluated from the perspective of coordinated land intensive use and human settlements for the harmonious development of rural production and living spaces. In this study, entropy right-TOPSIS was also selected to evaluate the utilization quality of rural residential areas. According to the utilization types of rural residential areas recognized by an elastic coefficient method modified by the coefficient of variation, the obstacle factors of each type were determined using the barrier diagnosis model. Finally, a promotion strategy was also proposed during this time. The research showed that: 1) The level of land-intensive use was above the average of regional standard in rural residential areas, whereas, the quality of human settlement environment and the comprehensive quality was moderately low with a varying spatial distribution. 2) The types of rural residential areas were characterized by dominant medium-quality, secondary high-quality, and less low-quality, corresponding to the decrease in the number of villages from the decoupling F weak, decoupling T weak, positive hook F strong, negative hook F weak, positive hook T strong, negative hook T weak, positive hook T-F equally strong, and negative hook T-F equally weak type. As such, the maladjusted development was the main obstacle to the high-quality utilization of rural residential areas. 3) The main obstacles were represented by the scale intensity, spatial layout, life environment, and production environment. Moreover, the number of obstacles gradually increased from high- to low-quality type. Specifically, the traffic, terrain, distance from urban areas, and industrial development were also the important influencing factors on the high-quality utilization of rural residential areas. In addition, the environmental development plan needed to be further improved using infrastructure construction. 4) The "integration, intensification, humanization and good governance" was required to be taken as the strategic direction for the systemic rectification in the whole region. Consequently, different measures should be adopted to promote the utilization quality of rural residential areas in an orderly manner. More importantly, it can also be highly demanding to fully maintain the ecological environment in rural residential areas with different utilization qualities. Among them, the rural residential areas with high-quality utilization should carry out appropriate optimized activities, while the medium-quality for synchronous promotion, and those of low-quality for systematic consolidation.