Why small towns are shrinking: The spatial heterogeneity of small towns shrinkage and the impact of it from the perspective of rural-urban interaction in China

• Yong Han ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hanyongw@126.com

  Affiliation School of Geographic Sciences, The Center of Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Rural Revitalization, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7707-9026

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• Yating Deng,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Geographic Sciences, The Center of Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Rural Revitalization, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China

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• Ruixing Ni

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Geographic Sciences, The Center of Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Rural Revitalization, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2742-6859

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