Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Driving Factors of New Quality Productive Forces in Cities of the Yellow River Basin: Evidence from the Perspective of New Development Concepts

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Based on the panel data of cities in the Yellow River Basin from 2009 to 2022, this paper constructs an evaluation index system based on the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing, and uses the global principal component - entropy weight method to systematically measure the development level of NQP in cities in the Yellow River Basin, and analyzes the spatio-temporal evolution law and driving mechanism of multi-factor interaction. The results show that: (1) The NQP index fluctuates N-shaped and decreases by 14.6%. In terms of space, the horizontal development presents a stepped pattern of high in the east and low in the west, and the spatial agglomeration presents a pattern of low-low agglomeration in the middle and high-high agglomeration in the east. (2) Gini coefficient shows a "v" shaped trend, with the largest difference in the upstream (0.169) and coordinated development in the middle and downstream. (3) The dynamic evolution shows that path dependence and spatial polarization coexist, and low-level regions are easy to fall into the trap of innovation inhibition, while high-level regions are more stable. (4) Scientific and technological progress is the core driving force (explanatory power 0.409), and the interaction with Population density, Educational level and Government intervention is significant (with the highest synergy effect of 0.4842), while the contribution of Economic development and industrial structure is limited. Physical sciences/Engineering Physical sciences/Mathematics and computing Physical sciences/Physics Yellow River basin new development concept new quality productivity regional differences Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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