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Mongolia is an important country in the Economic Corridor of China-Mongolia-Russia, a deep understanding of the coupling relationship between urbanization and the eco-environment in Mongolia is meaningful to achieve green development of the Belt and Road. The entropy method and coupling coordination degree model were integrated to evaluate the coupling coordination degree between urbanization and the eco-environment in Mongolia during 2000-2016. The results showed that the coupling coordination degree between urbanization and the eco-environment in Mongolia was generally at the stage of seriously unbalanced development, and that the main contributor of the urbanization and the eco-environment subsystem were demographic urbanization and eco-environment endowment, respectively. The southern part of Mongolia central zone should be paid more attention due to the lower degree of coupling coordination between urbanization and the eco-environment. To promote the healthy urbanization development in Mongolia, six-layer eco-city establishing green development pattern is proposed to provide scientific support for Mongolia.
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Foundation item: Under the auspices of the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDA20030203, XDA20030202), National Social Science Found of China (No. 17VDL016), National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017FY101304).
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Dong, S., Zheng, J., Li, Y. et al. Quantitative Analysis of the Coupling Coordination Degree Between Urbanization and Eco-environment in Mongolia. Chin. Geogr. Sci. 29, 861–871 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-019-1074-7
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