New Productive Forces and Urban-rural Balanced Development: Coupling Coordination, Regional Differences and Dynamic Evolution

As a high-tech, high-efficiency and high-quality productive force, new-quality productive force is crucial for China’ s economic transformation and upgrading and regional coordinated development. Based on the panel data of 31 provincial-level administrative regions in China from 2013 to 2022, a comprehensive evaluation index system of new-quality productive force and urban-rural balanced development was constructed. The development indexes of the two were calculated by using the entropy method. Through the coupling coordination degree model, Dagum Gini coefficient and Kernel density function, the degree of coupling coordination between the two and their regional differences and spatial evolution laws were deeply analyzed. The results showed that, the development level of new-quality productive force and urban-rural balanced development generally rised, but the overall level was not high, and the regional differences were significant. The eastern region developed faster. The coupling coordination degree between the two grew steadily, from low-level coordination to medium-level and then to high-level coordination. Geographically, the eastern region leaded, the central region was in the middle, and the western region laged behind. The regional differences in the coupling coordination degree between new-quality productive force and urban-rural balanced development gradually increased, mainly caused by intra-regional and inter-regional differences.