Research Article

[Retracted] A Dynamic Econometric Analysis of Urbanization and Ecological Environment in Silk Road Economic Belt

Table 1

Evaluation system of coupling coordination between urbanization and ecology.

ProjectFirst-grade indexSecond-grade indexImpact

Urbanization subsystem XPopulation urbanization (X1)Urban population (ten thousand)X11+
Proportion of urban population (%)X12+
Proportion of employed persons in secondary industry (%)X13+
Space urbanization (X2)Area of built-up area (km2)X21+
Urban road area per capita (square meters)X22+
Urban population density (persons/km2)X23+
Economic urbanization (X3)GDP per capita (yuan)X31+
Proportion of secondary industry (%)X32+
Proportion of tertiary industry (%)X33+
Value-added of secondary industry per capita (ten thousand yuan)X34+
Value-added of tertiary industry per capita (ten thousand yuan)X35+
Total industrial output value per capita (ten thousand yuan)X36+
Social urbanization (X4)Engel coefficient (%)X41-
Proportion of urban medical insurance participants (%)X42+
Number of beds in health institutions (piece)X43+
City gas penetration rate (%)X44+

Ecological environment subsystem(Y)Eco-environmental stress (Y1)Per capita industrial solid generation (t)Y11-
Industrial sulfur dioxide emissions per capita (t)Y12-
Industrial wastewater emissions per capita (t)Y13-
Eco-environmental state (Y2)Proportion of air quality reaching grade 2 or above (%)Y21+
Green coverage rate of built-up areas (%)Y22+
Disaster area (khm2)Y23-
Eco-environmental response (Y3)Industrial wastewater treatment rate (%)Y31 
Comprehensive utilization rate of industrial solid waste (ten thousand tons)Y32+
Urban sewage treatment rate (%)Y33+
Domestic waste delivering quantity (ten thousand tons)Y34+