sustainability Article Measurement and Path Selection of Rural Development Level in Enclave Areas: A Case Study of Jingyuan County, Gansu Province Jianwu Qi 1,2 , Wei Li 1,2,*, Zongxiang Wang 1,2 and Haozhou Fang 1,2 1 College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +86-184-1995-0756 Abstract: The development of rural areas is a significant component in social and economic activities. It is very important for optimizing the allocation of rural production and living factors, promoting the integration of urban and rural areas and sustainable development to identify the characteristics and main types of regional rural development. In this paper, 169 villages in Jingyuan County were selected as the research object, and the evaluation index system of rural development level was constructed from the perspective of “Factor-structure-function”. The rural development level and spatial structure characteristics of Jingyuan County were analyzed by using rural development index, regional function index, nearest neighbor index, and exploratory spatial data analysis, and the types and specific paths of rural development were determined. The results showed the following: Rural development of Jingyuan County is at a low level, which is characterized by “high in the south and Citation: Qi, J.; Li, W.; Wang, Z.; low in the north”. The level of rural development shows significant spatial dependence in the global Fang, H.