Abstract: In order to explore the interaction between the effectiveness of rural human settlements environment improvement, the rural economy and natural resources in the six provinces of central China, an economy-resource-environment system was constructed, and the entropy method and the coupling coordination degree model were used to measure the comprehensive score and coupling coordination degree of each system. The results showed that the comprehensive score of rural economy in the six provinces of central China had increased year by year, the comprehensive score of natural resources had been stabilizing, the comprehensive score of rural human settlements environment had increased slightly, and the comprehensive score of Shanxi Province was significantly lower than that of the other five provinces. In general, the coupling degree and coupling coordination degree of the rural economy of various provinces were increasing year by year, but the coupling coordination degree was less than the coupling degree. It can be concluded that the rural human settlement environment in the six provinces of central China needs to complement the rural economy and natural resources to jointly promote the construction of beautiful villages.

Key words: rural human settlement environment, rural economy, natural resources, degree of coupling and coordination, six provinces in central China