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Wu Zuobin, Jing Bo, Guo Qian, Li Ju, Wei A'ni
The Qinba Mountains, which occupy a geographic space on a north-south trajectory, are China’s central reservoirs and national green lung. Due to the topographical conditions, many conflicts occur around the issue of environmental protection and appeals for socioeconomic development. The Qinba Mountains region has gradually become a distressed area and a depressed economic zone, experiencing enormous conflict between the pressures of internal environmental protection and socioeconomic development. In this study, the authors first analyze the Qinba Mountains region’s planning-related conflict between ecological protection and urban-rural development, as well as the disconnection between green development and urban-rural construction. They then put forward an “ecology pilot, green-oriented” development strategy. Using an ecology pilot strategy, the authors delineate the ecological security pattern in the Qinba Mountains region to realize the integration of the living environment with the population, industry, and urban and rural space distribution. With a green-oriented strategy, the authors sum up the urban and rural planning mode, devise special systems to support transportation, and propose a “green-oriented” model for urban and rural living environments. The ultimate objective is the green development of urban and rural living environments in the Qinba Mountains, thus providing a reference point for the construction of urban and rural living environments throughout China.