The coordinative development between the quality and scale of urbanization

The role of new urbanization in the process of social development of China is increasingly important and it is an inevitable requirement of the Third Plenum of 18
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CPC Central Committee. In this paper, we try to study empirically the coordinative development between the quality and scale in the process of urbanization, and at the micro level to research the quality and scale of urbanization in time series for latest nine years. This paper establishes an evaluation index system, including seven aspects: economic development, social development, ecological development, urban- rural integration, land size, population size and economies of scale. This paper adopts two methods, improved entropy and quadrant diagram classification, to specify analysis and exploration. The results show that the quality and scale of urbanization of Hebei province increase gradually, the gap among cities is shrinking, and the coordination between the quality and scale of urbanization is improving as well. Quality ahead, however, results in the relative lack of scale phenomenon that is worthy attention. In addition, whatever the urbanization process or the coordination between quality and scale of urbanization, there are obviously spatial differences.