Taking 31 provincial-level regions in China from 2011 to 2020 as samples, we construct the index evaluation system of rural tourism development level and regional common prosperity, empirically measure and analyze the spatial and temporal characteristics of rural tourism development level and regional common prosperity in the country, and use spatial autocorrelation method to reveal their spatial correlation characteristics. At the same time, the relationship between rural tourism and regional common prosperity and its influence mechanism are analyzed and explored in depth by using spatial econometric model. The results show that: (1) China's rural tourism development level and regional common prosperity continue to steadily improve, and in geographic space present a more significant spatial clustering and correlation characteristics. (2) Rural tourism development has a significant positive impact and spatial spillover effect on regional common wealth, for every 1% increase in the development level of rural tourism in China, the local common wealth level will rise by 0.258% and the neighboring provinces by 0.126%. (3) The economic benefits, ecological and environmental benefits, and development conditions in the rural tourism grading index have positive effects on local regional common prosperity, and there are spillover effects on neighboring cities. There are different degrees of spillover effects, cultural benefits only have direct effects, and spatial benefits are not significant. (4) There are regional differences in the degree of influence of rural tourism development on regional common prosperity, among which, the central region plays a greater role in enhancing the level of common prosperity by rural tourism development.

The regional imbalance of rural tourism development is a prominent problem that restricts the common prosperity of rural areas. Based on the new challenge of common prosperity, the study transcends the single economic perspective, takes into account material and spiritual prosperity, considers absolute and relative poverty, analyzes the multi-layer space between regions and within a region, and updates the connotation of regional imbalance in rural tourism development under the guidance of macro and micro humanistic ideas. It points out the key problems of regional imbalance of rural tourism development from the perspective of common prosperity, and constructs macro, medium and micro index systems. At the macro level, development capacity is measured by ecological indicators, supply indicators and cultural indicators, development opportunities are measured by social indicators, and development results are measured by economic indicators and governance indicators. At the medium level, we measure the fairness of the development process and the sharing degree of the development results among the subjects through the level of residents' collaborative governance and the level of distribution equity, and measure the interactive relationship between residents and tourists through the level of subjective and objective value co-creation. At the micro level, residents' satisfaction is taken as the foothold, focusing on the well-being, sense of gain, sense of fairness and sense of security of residents in rural tourism areas. The research provides a new theoretical perspective and analytical tools for the dynamic, refined and quantitative study of regional imbalances, helps to enrich the theoretical connotation of rural tourism research, and provides a scientific basis and application reference for promoting the common prosperity of rural areas and the coordinated development of regional tourism.

Promoting the green development of urban and rural construction as a whole is the basic principle to achieve the goal of common prosperity. This paper adopts the combined subjective and objective weighting method to comprehensively measure the green development level of China's urban and rural construction from 2010 to 2020 from the three dimensions of green integration, green development mode and green innovation. On this basis, with the help of Dagum Gini coefficient, kernel density estimation and QAP method, this paper reveals the spatial source, evolution trend and formation mechanism of regional gap. Research findings are as follows: During the sample survey period, the green development level of urban and rural construction in China has increased steadily. Among all subsystems, the eastern region has shown significant advantages, while the green innovation level of the central and western regions and Northeast China is not optimistic. The regional gap of green development in urban and rural construction is worsening, and the gap between regions is the main source of the overall gap. The focus of narrowing the gap within regions is on Eastern and Western China. The evolution context of the green development level of urban and rural construction in the country and the four major regions is different, but the polarization trend is increasing and accompanied by the phenomenon of "the best is better". Reasonable regulation and control of the scientific and technological innovation environment gap and residents' income gap are the decisive forces to alleviate the regional imbalance of green development in urban and rural construction, while the high proportion of the secondary industry will inhibit the green development in urban and rural areas. In addition, at the regional level, the influencing factors have obvious spatial heterogeneity.

This paper constructs a theoretical framework for the coordinated development of natural resource-driven tourism urbanization and residents' happiness. Taking the natural resource-driven tourist city of Zhangjiajie as an example, it uses the coupling coordination degree model and trend analysis to examine the temporal and spatial evolution law of the coordinated development of tourism urbanization and residents' happiness in the study area from 2002 to 2020, the quadratic exponential smoothing prediction model to analyze and predict the coupling coordination degree between 2021 and 2030, and the gray correlation model to measure the main influencing factors of the coordinated development of the two. The results show that: (1) The overall level of Zhangjiajie's tourism urbanization and residents' happiness development has been continuously improved, and the state of tourism urbanization and residents' happiness has changed from the initial state of tourism urbanization lagging behind residents' happiness to a state of simultaneous development of tourism urbanization and residents' happiness; (2) The degree of coordinated development has continued to increase, and the transition from being on the verge of imbalance to good coordination has been realized, and the city is expected to enter a state of high-quality coordination in 2030; (3) Coupling coordination has significant spatial differentiation, with the characteristics of "high in the east and the south, while low in the west and the north"; (4) The influencing factors of coordinated development are mainly material foundation and guarantee, but the importance of non-material influencing factors is gradually increasing.

Rural culture is the essence and core attraction of rural tourism destinations. Exploring the phenomenon of cultural stress in rural tourism destinations and proposing the resource development model accordingly is a fundamental effort that can effectively promote the creative transformation and innovative development of rural traditional culture in the context of rural revitalization. Based on the perspective of stress ecology theory, this paper selects the typical rural tourism destination, Dongshan town, Jiangsu province, for the field survey, in-depth interview, and questionnaire research. By combining various spatial measures and mathematical-statistical methods, this study reveals rural cultural stress evolution characteristics and dynamic mechanisms and proposes an innovative development model of cultural resources in rural tourism destinations. The research finds that: (1) The spatial evolution of cultural stress in rural tourism destinations has continuity and regularity. The evolutionary characteristics of cultural stress in different dimensions differ significantly, showing path dependence and spatial locking effect generally, and these characteristics tend to be significant as the degree of tourism development improves. (2) Various factors at the individual and overall levels of the rural tourism destinations jointly constitute the external stress system of the rural culture, which influence the cultural evolution of rural tourism destination through the interaction and synergy, and then generate resistance and modification power to continuously drive the transmutation of the rural cultural system and realize the stage development. (3) Rural culture is a special ecosystem with the ability of self-organization and adjustment under stress. This paper proposes five models and strategies for the development of rural cultural resources that include restoration and conservation, revitalization and participation, equity and guidance, autonomy and innovation, and physical training and ceremonial drill. This study will provide practical guidance for the protection and development of rural cultural resources, as well as enrich theories on the high-quality development of rural tourism and promote comprehensive rural revitalization.