The Evaluation of Land Development and Utilization Based on 11 Prefecture-Level Cities in Hebei Province

This paper presents the evaluation of land development and utilization of 11 prefecture-level cities in Hebei Province. Based on the revision of previous evaluation indicators, we firstly set four new indicators including population density, per capita living space, per capita area of land used for construction and built-up area/urban area. Secondly, the geographical differentiation of all prefecture-level cities in four indicators is compared; Thirdly, the time series network method is used to establish the similarity matrix between cities, and each city with the provincial average level as well. Through these processes, we can quantify and compare the relative level of land development and utilization for each city. Finally, we believe that this work is important to the integration process of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the easing of non-capital functions.