The Spatial Distribution Pattern and Influencing Factors of Rural Governance Demonstration Villages and Towns in China

Abstract: Rural governance is the basic requirement for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, so it is closely related to the implementation of the national rural revitalization strategy and the realization of the modernization goal of national governance. Taking 2189 rural governance demonstration villages and towns in China as the research object, the spatial distribution structure and influencing factors of rural governance demonstration villages and towns were explored in this study by using the nearest neighbor index method, the kernel density estimation method, the grid dimension analysis method and the spatial autocorrelation analysis method. The results show that the spatial distribution of rural governance demonstration villages and towns in China tends to be clustered, and the spatial differentiation is obvious. The analysis of kernel density in the rural governance demonstration villages and towns presents a number of kernel centers in space, and the distribution pattern of secondary centers is in the form of a belt distribution, which is formed by decreasing and spreading around the surrounding kernel centers. The rural governance demonstration village and town system features obvious scale-free areas and fractal characteristics. The spatial distribution of the rural governance demonstration villages and towns is mainly influenced by natural and cultural factors, among which, the topography and lake water systems are the main influencing factors. Among the humanistic factors, the social economy, transportation and national culture are the main influencing factors, while the influence of population distribution is not significant.