Evaluation of the regional comprehensive carrying capacity of Yanta District, Xi'an

The evaluation of the regional comprehensive carrying capacity (RCCC) plays an important part in the plan of the regional future development. The combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is used in the research to evaluate the RCCC with Yanta District as the object. Considering the actual situation of Yanta District, the paper draws up an comprehensive evaluation index system, determines the weight of each index with entropy method and evaluates the RCCC by state space method. The evaluate analysis shows that Yanta District now is at-capacity and has great development potential.