Assessment of regional environmental and economy restructure under the background of western development and “urban and rural co-ordination development” a case study of Chongqing

摘要

Chongqing is not only the unique municipality in western China, but also an important economic growth pole and the economic center of Yangtze River. The empirical analysis from 2001 to 2008 shows the value and trends of Environmental and economic benefits, environmental and economic co-ordination degree, comprehensive assessment index of coordinated development showed a steady growth year by year. In addition, there exists a strong linear relationship between economic and environmental benefit, that is y = 0.719x + 0.268. To predict the future value of economy and environment based on the result, and then recalculate the coordinated development degree, the results show Chongqing will get the complete coordinated development between economy and environment in 2014.