A Study on the Responsiveness of Rural Revitalization Planning in Revolutionary Base Areas Based on Multidimensional Value Assessment: A Case Study of Huining County

In the process of rural revitalization, former revolutionary base areas face deep-seated contradictions between their historical contributions and their current development. This study uses 307 village-level administrative units in Huining County, Gansu Province. Based on multi-source spatial datasets from five time periods spanning 1970–2025, it constructs a rural value assessment system across five dimensions—rural industry, ecology, society, culture, and governance. It comprehensively employs methods such as the entropy weighting method, global spatial autocorrelation, hot spot analysis, and landscape pattern indices to reveal the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of rural value. The results indicate that while overall value has continued to rise, growth patterns across different dimensions have diverged significantly; the Global Moran’s I exhibits a nonlinear trajectory of “decline—rebound—fluctuations at a low level,” corresponding to the three-stage evolution of settlements—namely, “integration—expansion—contraction”—revealing a phased disconnect between top-down spatial planning and bottom-up rural industrial development; spatial differentiation of cultural resources plays a decisive role in rural value, and the revitalization of revolutionary base areas requires a shift from sustained external investment to culture-driven industrialization. This study provides an operational framework—from value assessment to spatial planning—for differentiated rural revitalization strategies in revolutionary base areas.