Abstract: Clarification of the relationship between urbanization quality and resource utilization under the concept of inclusive development can provide guidance for related departments to propose a healthy development direction for urbanization. Using Gini coefficient, exploratory spatial data analysis and coordination degree model, we analyzed the coordination between the urbanization quality and resource utilization in China’s provinces from 2000 to 2016. The obstacle degree model was used to explore its obstacle factors. The degree of coordination between the quality of China’s urbanization and the level of resource utilization had fluctuated upward, showing a stepwise downward trend both from east to west and south to north. The coordination levels for various regions were low, but with substantial asynchrony. The coordination between urbanization quality and resource utilization level in China was dominated by the lagging type of urbanization. The spatial distribution of coordination showed a characteristic of “high in the southeast and low in the northwest”, with hot spots shifting to the southeast and cold spots shrinking in the northwest. The barriers of individual indicators varied greatly across different provinces. The main obstacle factors in the indicator layer included per capita financial expenditure on science and technology, urban basic medical insurance coverage, number of doctors per 10000 people, urban basic endowment insurance coverage, unemployment insurance coverage, year-end balance of various deposits in financial institutions, public library book collection of 100 people, the proportion of output value of the tertiary industry, and the proportion of construction land area.

Key words: inclusive development, quality of urbanization, resource use, coupling of time and space, degree of obstacles.