EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS OF COORDINATED DEVELOPMENT OF ECO-ENVIRONMENT AND ETHNIC REGION ECONOMY

摘要

Facing the challenge of both resources scarcity and environmental pollution, coordinated development of eco-environment and ethnic region Economy has been adopted by the government as a strategy for pursuing sustainable development. In order to provide more valuable policy implications to other Chinese regions with more minority residents, two questionnaire surveys were carried out, respectively in 20'2 and 20'7, covering responses from 500 interviewees. The results show that, while residents' understanding toward sustainable development increased from 10.5% in 2012 to 58.7% in 2017, only 39% of the interviewees knew the concept of coordinated development indicating residents' limited understanding on coordinated development. Using the coupling coordination model, 26 indexes of ecological environment system and economic system were selected to evaluate the ecological environment and economic coupling of Inner Mongolia from 2012 to 2017. The results show that the overall ecological environment and economic coupling of Inner Mongolia are relatively low, but overall goes to the good direction.