International Journal of Geo-Information Article Study on the Level and Type Identification of Rural Development in Wuhan City’s New Urban Districts Liang Jiang 1,2, Jing Luo 1,2, Chunyan Zhang 1,2,*, Lingling Tian 1,2, Qingqing Liu 3, Guolei Chen 4 and Ye Tian 5 1 Key Laboratory of Hubei Province, Analysis and Simulation of Geographic Process, Central China Normal University, No.152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +86-135-0717-8830 Received: 6 February 2020; Accepted: 12 March 2020; Published: 13 March 2020 Abstract: A quantitative analysis of rural development is required to comprehend the spatial differentiation of a rural area and promote rural sustainable development under the pressure of urbanization and industrialization, especially areas with dramatic changes in rural socioeconomic development of China and other developing countries. Taking Wuhan as the case study, this paper developed an index system including rural settlement, land, industry and human settlement environment for evaluating the level of rural development.