Redai dili (Oct 2023)
Spatial-Temporal Patterns of Advanced Manufacturing Distribution and Its Influence Factors in the Pearl River Delta
Abstract
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the United States, Britain, Germany, and other developed Western countries have regarded manufacturing as a driving force for economic revitalization. The United States proposed the concept of advanced manufacturing and issued a series of policies to ensure its leading position in the manufacturing industry by promoting the development of advanced manufacturing. Advanced manufacturing is the only way for China to move from a large manufacturing country to a powerful manufacturing country, and it is also the direction of manufacturing development. Therefore, it has received great interest from officials and academics. However, as it is difficult to define the categories of advanced manufacturing in national statistical standards, only a few studies have focused on the definition and policies of advanced manufacturing and a case study on the spatial-temporal patterns at the urban level under the influence of local policies. There have been no studies on the spatial-temporal pattern of advanced manufacturing at the regional level and its influencing factors to promote the development of regional advanced manufacturing clusters. The spatial-temporal patterns of the advanced manufacturing distribution at the regional level are not only affected by local policies, but also related to the characteristics of each city within the region and the agglomeration and spillover characteristics of enterprises between different cities. How these factors affect the regional level of advanced manufacturing distribution and the spatial-temporal characteristics warrants further research. Based on four sets of economic census employment data at the district-level in 2004, 2008, 2013, 2018, this study uses the density, growth rate, Theil index, and Global Moran's Index to explore the spatial-temporal pattern of advanced manufacturing distribution in the Pearl River Delta and its influence factors. It found that (1) the density around the Pearl River area and the east bank is higher than that of the peripheral area and the west bank, but the growth rate of four parts is similar during the whole period and it appear negative during between 2014 and 2018. (2) the density of nine cities in order are: Shenzhen> Dongguan> Zhongshan> Foshan> Zhuhai> Guangzhou> Huizhou> Jiangmen> Zhaoqing; the growth rate of nine cities are: Zhaoqing> Huizhou> Shenzhen> Foshan> Zhuhai> Zhongshan> Dongguan> Guangzhou> Jiangmen, and that of Shenzhen, Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan and Guangzhou is negative between 2014 and 2018. (3)spatial distribution evolves from "core-multiple edges" to "core-multiple subcores-multiple edge", the density of Guangzhou and Shenzhen appears suburbanization, density of districts becomes higher, growth rate of districts gets lower and that of 84% districts are negative between 2014 and 2018, Global Moran's Index is high but decreasing, Theil Index is above-moderate and increasing. Government encouragement policies of regions and cities, urban characteristics of location advantage and port advantage, and enterprise characteristics of agglomeration economy promote advanced manufacturing agglomeration, increased density, high spatial distribution, and multiple core emergence; The government optimization policies of digitalization and environmental regulation, and the enterprise characteristics of spillover effects lead to the suburbanization of big cities, the negative growth of the Pearl River Delta region from 2014 to 2018, and the decreasing trend of spatial distribution correlation. This study focuses on the spatial-temporal patterns of advanced manufacturing distribution representing the development direction of manufacturing and its influencing factors in the Pearl River Delta to provide a reference for government decision-making at all levels in the Pearl River Delta, to formulate policies to promote the development of advanced manufacturing, enhance the economic strength of the Pearl River Delta, and realize China's dream of becoming a powerful manufacturing country.
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