scholarly journals Transforming Urban-Rural Water Linkages into High Quality Investments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
High Quality ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
Urban Rural

scholarly journals How High-Quality Urbanization Affects Utilization Efficiency of Agricultural Water Resources in the Yellow River Basin under Double Control Action?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2869
Author(s):  
Xiling Zhang ◽  
Yusheng Kong ◽  
Xuhui Ding
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Yellow River Basin ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
Agricultural Water ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Water Utilization ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Yellow River Basin

To promote the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, the total amount and intensity of agricultural water must be controlled. Further speaking, an urbanization development system should be established that is compatible with water resources and the water environment. We adopted the stochastic frontier analysis model to measure the agricultural water utilization efficiency of the Yellow River Basin from 2007 to 2017. We also adopted the dynamic panel difference generalized method of moments (GMM) and system GMM models to verify the driving factors, in which population urbanization, economic urbanization, and equilibrium urbanization levels were selected as the key variables. The results show that the overall efficiency of agricultural water utilization maintained a steady upward trend during the research period. The spatial differentiation was generally characterized by higher efficiency levels in the eastern region and lower levels in the western region. The variation coefficient of water utilization efficiency showed a downward trend in general, which indicates a space spillover effect. Agricultural water utilization efficiency continued to converge from 2007 to 2017, and the upper reaches area converged relatively more quickly. Regarding the influencing factors, the population urbanization, economic urbanization, balanced urbanization, crop planting ratio, and rice planting ratio had negative effects on agricultural water utilization efficiency. Urbanization did not positively affect agricultural water use efficiency as the related theories, so urbanization quality and urban–rural integration should be paid more attention. However, technology innovation was significantly positive in agricultural water utilization efficiency. The influencing factors of per capita water availability and annual precipitation did not pass the significance test. Therefore, the government should vigorously promote the development of high-quality new-type urbanization, scientifically formulate the scale and speed of urbanization, strengthen the urban, rural, and industrial integration, and promote the adjustment of planting structures and agricultural deep processing.

scholarly journals Analysis of the water meter management of the urban-rural water supply system

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Gwozdziej-Mazur ◽  
Kamil Świętochowski
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Demand ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Water Supply System ◽  
Water Losses ◽  
Rural Water Supply ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Water Supply Company ◽  
Water Meter

Water losses in the water supply network pose a continuous challenge for water companies. Already during designing new networks, the designer assumes that the amount of water demand must be increased by a certain percentage (usually by 10% of the total average daily water demand for municipal and industrial purposes) due to the possible occurrence of water losses. Water loss is meant the difference between the amount of water injected into the network and the amount of water used and invoiced, i.e. that brings income for the water supply company. Proper water metering management helps to limit water losses. This paper presents analysis of the water meter management of urban-rural water supply system.

scholarly journals Navigating China’s Economic Development in the New Era: From High-Speed to High-Quality Growth

2018 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Quan Heng
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Quality Development ◽  
High Quality ◽  
New Era ◽  
Regional Coordination ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Timely Fashion ◽  
The Moment

China’s economy has entered a “new normal,” transforming from high-speed growth to high-quality development. In the new era, China does not only need to shift its path of development in a timely fashion, but it should also take bigger steps to modernize its economic system. Facing various new demands and challenges, China must make every effort to foster an economic system that features innovation-driven industries, urban-rural and regional coordination, a market economy with socialist characteristics, as well as lasting momentum for opening-up on all fronts. It is expected that despite the economic difficulties at the moment, China will accelerate its economic transformation to achieve high-quality development and make new contributions to the world economy.

scholarly journals Study on the model of domestic sewage resource utilization

2021 ◽  
Vol 252 ◽  
pp. 03044
Author(s):  
Zhuangzhuang Qu ◽  
Yangjing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Anaerobic Fermentation ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Domestic Sewage ◽  
Sewage Discharge ◽  
Economic Level ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
Urban Rural

In recent years, with the degree of urban-rural integration, the economic level of rural areas and the improvement of residents’ health awareness, the water quality pollution of rural domestic sewage has increased year by year, and the problem of rural sewage discharge has become increasingly prominent. In order to improve the rural water environment and solve the problem of random discharge of sewage, this paper takes the rural domestic sewage as the research object, and takes the natural sedimentation and anaerobic fermentation as the main means to study the on-site resource utilization technology of sewage. It was found that after 3 hours of sewage sedimentation, organic suspended solids settled naturally, resulting in a significant decrease of COD in the upper sewage to 93.29 mg/L. Because of the special bimolecular structure of LAS, the concentration of LAS in surface sewage increased sharply to 7.68mg/L, but it was lower than 10mg/L, which met the irrigation water standard.

Urban–Rural Water Nexus

2018 ◽  
pp. 222-238
Author(s):  
R. Parthasarathy ◽  
Soumini Raja
Keyword(s):  
Rural Water ◽  
Urban Rural

An Inquiry into China’s Urbanization Quality in the Era of Urban Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. 2050005
Author(s):  
Tong-Ping LI ◽  
Gu XIAO ◽  
Xiao ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Entropy Method ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
New Urbanization

In 2011, China entered into an era of urban society with a majority of urban population. It is a miracle in human history and a momentous change in Chinese society. Under this context, this paper establishes an index system to measure the quality of urbanization, including the rate of household registered population and deviation of urbanization based on the three aspects of urban development, residents’ life and urban–rural integration and the five dimensions of population, economy, space, society and urban–rural coordination. The entropy method and inter-provincial panel data in 2011–2017 are used to conduct empirical analysis on the quality of urbanization of China and its evolution in this period. It is found that although urbanization quality has been improved significantly and regional disparities have been alleviated slightly after entering the urban society, the overall pattern has not changed. Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai as well as the eastern provinces including Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong are among the top, while the northeastern region continues to decline and the western inland provinces are still left behind. The most pressing task is to promote high-quality urbanization. With people as the core and “market” as the support, efforts should be made to improve social construction and urban–rural coordination, narrow the gap between the rate of household registered population and the rate of permanent urban population, promote the new urbanization focusing on quality and finally, build a high-quality modern urban society.

scholarly journals Can Urban-Rural Patterns of Hospital Selection Be Changed Using a Report Card Program? A Nationwide Observational Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 1827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsung-Hsien Yu ◽  
Nikolas Matthes ◽  
Chung-Jen Wei
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Hospital Performance ◽  
Report Card ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Urban Rural

Background: Guiding patients to choose high-quality healthcare providers helps ensure that patients receive excellent care and helps reduce health disparities among patients of different socioeconomic backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the effect of implementing a report-card program on the patterns of hospital selection in patients from different socioeconomic subgroups. Patients undergoing total knee replacement (TKR) surgery were used as the sample population. Methods: A patient-level, retrospective, observational and cross-sectional study design was conducted. Taiwan National Health Insurance claims data were used and all patients in this database who had received TKR between April 2007–March 2008 (prior to report-card program implementation) and between April 2009–March 2010 (after program implementation) were included. Those patients who were under 18 years of age or who lacked area-of-residence or National Health Insurance premium information were excluded. Travelling distance to the hospital and level of hospital performance were used to evaluate the effect of the report-card program. Results: A total of 32,821 patients were included in this study. The results showed that patterns of hospital selection varied based on the socioeconomic characteristics of patients. In terms of travelling distance and hospital selection, the performance of urban and higher income patients was shorter and better, respectively, than their rural and lower-income peers both before and after report-card-program implementation. Moreover, although the results of multivariate analysis showed that the urban-rural difference in travelling distance enlarged (by 4.75 km) after implementation of the report-card program, this increase was shown to not be significantly related to this program. Furthermore, the results revealed that implementation of the report-card program did not significantly affect the urban-rural difference in terms of level of hospital performance. Conclusions: A successful report-card program should ensure that patients in all socioeconomic groups obtain comprehensive information. However, the results of this study indicate that those in higher socioeconomic subgroups attained more benefits from the program than their lower-subgroup peers. Ensuring that all have equal opportunity to access high-quality healthcare providers may therefore be the next issue that needs to be addressed and resolved.

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