Kong, Q. and He, J., 2020. Controlling methods of driving factors in the economic development of coastal areas. In: Yang, Y.; Mi, C.; Zhao, L., and Lam, S. (eds.), Global Topics and New Trends in Coastal Research: Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 103, pp. 129–133. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.

The traditional method for controlling economic development factors has a large deviation when measuring the growth rate of comprehensive factors of economic growth. Therefore, a method for controlling the driving factors of economic development and evolution in coastal areas is proposed. This method extracts the characteristics of the economic development and evolution of the coastal areas, calculates the overall difference in the quality of development, and finds that there are significant high-value clusters in the spatial quality of economic development in the coastal areas. Establish an economic driving factor indicator system, analyze the main driving factors, and study the dynamic changes in the production and consumption levels in coastal areas. Establish a control model to regulate and control the economic systems in coastal areas. This completes the control method of the driving factors for the economic development and evolution of the coastal areas. The experimental results show that the comprehensive factor growth rate calculated by this method is closer to the real value than the traditional method, which verifies the effectiveness of the design method.