https://journals.itb.ac.id/index.php/jpwk <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Journal of Regional and City Planning</strong> (JRCP) is a tri-annual open access journal mainly focusing on urban and regional studies and planning in transitional, developing and emerging economies. JRCP covers topics related to the sciences, analytics, development, intervention, and design of communities, cities, and regions including their physical, spatial, technological, economic, social and political environments. The journal is committed to create a multidisciplinary forum in the field by seeking original paper submissions from planners, architects, geographers, economists, sociologists, humanists, political scientists, environmentalists, engineers and other who are interested in the past, present, and future transformation of cities and regions in transitional, developing and emerging economies.</p> <p><strong>ISSN: </strong><a href="https://issn.brin.go.id/terbit/detail/1455694475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2502-6429</a> (online)</p> The Directorate for Research and Innovation, Institut Teknologi Bandung en-US Journal of Regional and City Planning 2502-6429 <p>Manuscript submitted to JRCP has to be an original work of the author(s), contains no element of plagiarism, and has never been published or is not being considered for publication in other journals. The author(s) retain the copyright of the content published in JRCP. There is no need for request or consultation for future re-use and re-publication of the content as long as the author and the source are cited properly.</p> https://journals.itb.ac.id/index.php/jpwk/article/view/25909 <p>Promoting urbanization construction with county towns as an essential carrier was a significant decision made by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, marking a historic shift in China’s New-Type Urbanization strategy. Based on panel data from 176 counties in 21 cities in western China from 2013 to 2022, this paper empirically examines the heterogeneous effects of New-Type Urbanization on the urban-rural income gap at the county and city levels by developing a comprehensive index system for New-Type Urbanization developments. The results show that: (1) whether at the county or the city level, the construction of New-Type Urbanization significantly contributes to narrowing the urban and rural residents’ income gap; (2) based on the comparative analysis of the county and city levels, it was found that taking the county as the basic unit to promote New-Type Urbanization development has more advantages in narrowing the income gap; (3) compared with city districts, promoting New-Type Urbanization construction in county towns is more beneficial for narrowing the urban-rural income gap.</p> Yexing Yin Tingting Chen Yuemei Sun Qiuping Deng Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Regional and City Planning https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 2025-12-18 2025-12-18 36 3 205 219 10.5614/jpwk.2025.36.3.1