scholarly journals Does Population Mobility Contribute to Urbanization Convergence? Empirical Evidence from Three Major Urban Agglomerations in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Wang ◽  
Wenna Fan ◽  
Xiangyan Lin ◽  
Juan Liu ◽  
Xin Ye
Keyword(s):  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
High Growth Rate ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Agglomeration Effect ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
The Yangtze River Delta

Population mobility accelerates urbanization convergence and mitigates the negative impact of the spatial agglomeration effect on urbanization convergence, which is the most important conclusion in this paper. Taking 38 cities in China’s three urban agglomerations (the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region) from 2005 to 2016 as research subjects, the study first shows that there is a large gap in the level of urbanization between the three major urban agglomerations, but the gap has been constantly narrowed and presents a trend of absolute convergence and conditional convergence. Furthermore, without adding a population mobility variable, the combination of the diffusion effect of high-urbanization cities and the high growth rate of low-urbanization cities causes the inter-regional urbanization level to be continuously convergent in the Yangtze River Delta region; however, the combination of the agglomeration effect of high-urbanization cities and the high growth rate of low-urbanization cities causes the inter-regional urbanization to be divergent in the Pearl River Delta and the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region. Under the influence of population mobility, the “catch-up” effect in low-urbanization regions is greater than the agglomeration effect in high-urbanization regions, which promotes the continuous convergence of inter-regional urbanization.

Multi-indicator Evaluation and Analysis of Coordinated Industrial Development of Urban Agglomerations

2017 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 1750006
Author(s):  
Xuan SUN
Keyword(s):  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Urban Agglomeration ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
Indicator Evaluation ◽  
The Yangtze River Delta

The level of coordinated industrial development in a region is considered as an important factor of measuring the construction of urban agglomerations. As the economic development patterns and stages vary in regions, a single-standard evaluation system is generally insufficient in evaluating and analyzing the coordinated industrial development of urban agglomerations. This paper, with multivariate values and diversified development demands considered, quantitatively describes the industrial development of urban agglomerations from four dimensions: economics, specialization, balance, and friendliness. On this basis, it synthesizes the indicator parameters effectively and proposes a multi-indicator evaluation model. Through the model, the paper comparatively analyzes the present status and development course of coordinated industrial development of typical urban agglomerations (Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration, the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, and the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration) in China. The results show that Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration has the clearest division of industries, but its industrial spillover effect is limited, the industrial structure of small and medium cities is too simple, and the economic gap among cities narrows at a very slow rate. The core cities in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration exert certain driving effect upon the economy of their surrounding areas. However, they hardly give full play to their comparative advantages due to a low level of regional integration and high industrial similarity among cities. Compared with the above two urban agglomerations, the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration enjoys more reasonable division of industries among cities, significant driving effect of core cities, and higher level of coordinated industrial development as driven by the market economy.

scholarly journals Study on the Spatial Connection of Beijing Tianjin Hebei Urban Agglomeration

2020 ◽  
Vol 206 ◽  
pp. 02014
Author(s):  
Wang Hongmei ◽  
Lu Zhihui
Keyword(s):  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Urban Agglomeration ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
The North ◽  
Development Experience ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
The Yangtze River Delta

The importance of close cooperation among cities can be seen from the development experience of mature urban agglomerations in the world. Compared with the Yangtze river delta and the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration, cities in Beijing Tianjin Hebei urban agglomerations are in poor connection. This paper studies the internal linkages of Beijing Tianjin Hebei Urban Agglomerations, and finds that: in recent years, the overall spatial linkages of the urban agglomerations have been several times higher than that in 2007, but they show the characteristics of geographically “dense in the South and sparse in the north”; the main connection tracks within the urban agglomerations are roughly “inverted L”, that is, the connection of “Beijing-Tianjin”, “Beijing-Baoding-Shijiazhuang” and “Xingtai-Handan”.

scholarly journals Factors Aggregating Ability and the Regional Differences among China’s Urban Agglomerations

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengliang Liu ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Qingbin Guo
Keyword(s):  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Urban Agglomeration ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
The Yangtze River Delta

Continuous aggregation of socioeconomic factors is the key issue of sustainable development in urban agglomerations. To date, more attention has been paid to single urban agglomeration than to multiple agglomerations. In this paper, China’s 19 urban agglomerations were selected as the case study and their spatial differences in factors aggregating ability were portrayed comparatively. Firstly, the spatial pattern of urban factors aggregating ability is relatively well distributed in all China’s cases, most noticeably in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, closely followed by the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Pearl River Delta urban agglomerations. However, more significant differences on factors aggregating ability are noticeably seen between cities than among urban agglomerations. Meanwhile, the rank-size structure distribution of factors aggregating ability in China’s 19 cases is in line with the Zipf’s law of their urban systems, and divided into three types: Optimized, balanced, and discrete. Furthermore, the urban factors aggregation ability in one urban agglomeration is roughly negatively correlated with its primacy ratio of factors aggregating ability distribution. Lastly, urban agglomerations with higher average values of factors aggregating ability are concentrated on the three major urban agglomerations: The Yangtze River Delta, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Pearl River Delta. Otherwise, high-high clusters in the three urban agglomerations are distinctly observed as well.

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