Development of Geo-Concentrated continuous areas with special difficulties in Western China: Comprehensive evaluation and regional division

摘要

Western China Development promoted a rapid growth of regional economy, but also brought obvious contradictions: Western China is still lagging behind with significant disparities in internal development. Some areas, moreover, with seriously deep poverty, low standard public service and hostile living environment, is in special difficulty. This paper evaluates 171 prefecture-level cities with Improved Entropy Method to identify the significant disparities of Western China. According to geo-spatial coherence and consistent factor to poverty, this paper divides areas with special-difficulties into seven concentrated & continuous parts. And put forward some general methods to develop concentrated & continuous areas with special difficulties.