Connotation and evaluation of high-quality development in counties of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

High-quality development is an important theme in the 14Th Five-Year Plan of China．Here we consider connotation of regional high-quality development of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau．Degree of regional high-quality development in 2010 and 2019 was evaluated by entropy-weighting method, head/tail breaks, and obstacle model．The obstacles restricting development of county economy were diagnosed．It was found that from 2010-2019, the degree of regional high-quality development had improved．Development in boundary counties was found to be higher than interior counties in 2019, with two core regions．In 2019, indicators related to innovation were the main obstacle restricting development in counties．To our knowledge, this paper is the first to systematically evaluate degree of regional high-quality development at county levels of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau．