"邊疆"的本質屬性涉及人口及其密度,也涉及經濟社會發展程度。從"邊疆"的人類社會屬性上講,社會安全程度和經濟發展程度則是衡量邊疆特性的基本維度。根據邊疆社會屬性的兩大維度——安全與發展程度的高低,通過2×2矩陣可以劃分為四種類型:純粹型、控制型、相對型和中心型。在此基礎上,總結抽象出邊疆治理的基本路徑:安全優先模式、發展導向模式、"鐘擺"模式和安全發展并重模式。

The essential attribute of frontier relates to population and its density, and also to the level of economic and social development. Seen from the human social attributes of "frontier", the levelof social security and economic development is a basic dimensiontomeasure the frontier characteristics. According to these two dimensions-the level of security and development, frontier can be divided into four typesby 2 × 2 matrix: pure type, control type, relative type and central type. On this basis, the basic path of frontier governance can be summarized: security-priority model, development-oriented model, "pendulum" model and security-development balanced model.