Research on Spatial Difference and Evolution of Industrial Agglomeration of Characteristic Towns in China: Evidence from Chinese Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta

Abstract

As a new type of industrial innovation platform and an industrial agglomeration form combining industry with environment-friendly urban construction, characteristic town’s construction is emerging in China in recent years. However, as a new thing, the relevant theoretical system has not yet been formed and provided the theoretical basis for policy making. To this end, this paper uses statistical and spatial economic geography research methods, analyzes industry agglomeration degree and speed, spatial correlation and difference of time-space evolution of the different types state-level characteristic towns in China’s Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, it will help break through the administrative division limit, and is beneficial to analyze the relationship between characteristic towns and the overall economic development of the region based on the middle level, according to the inner link of the development of industry, in the context of regional economic integration. Compared with the previous research focus on characteristic town cases and evaluation index system, it is the beneficial attempt to promote the systematic development of existing research on the characteristic towns, is advantageous to the government management department to put forward certain operability countermeasures from the actual situation of the regional and industrial development, and also is a certain theoretical preparation for the future in-depth study on the inner mechanism of the characteristic towns and the regional development.