| In accordance with the process of economic development in worldwide since theIndustrial Revolution, economic growth is always characterized as some patterns ofgeographic agglomeration, which include large gap of economic developmentbetween countries with different location as well as regional imbalance in the samecountry. In this paper, the following issues will be discussed in detail:1. What about the situation of agglomeration of manufacturing industries incurrent China? And what about differences of the distribution of manufacturingindustries between regions in China?2. What is the mode of the agglomeration of manufacturing in China? Is thereany difference of the mode between regions in China?3. How does the agglomeration of manufacturing industries in China put itseffects on regional economic growth in China? Why are there different ways takenby agglomeration of manufacturing industries to put effects on economic growth?For giving an answer to above problems, this paper is organized as follows:Chapter 1 is an introduction, where we bring out the main issues studied in thispaper on the basis of the description of industrization in China since 1949. Chapter 2is a survey for existing studies on related issues.In Chapter 3, we make a statistic description to the distribution of manufacturingindustries in the nationwide. By means of graphes and tables, a comparative analysisis made for the difference of regional economic growth and the difference ofdistribution of manufacturing industries. As a result, we shape an outline fordistribution of manufacturing industries in China and establish a foundation forfurther analysis.We measure industrial agglomeration of manufacturing industries in China bysome indices in Chapter 4. First of all, we give an initial introduction for factorsresulting in industrial agglomeration in China. As a following, several indices formeasuring agglomeration are introduced. And then we modify the EG index and applyit to make an evaluation for China's industrial agglomeration. In addition, wecalculate Herfindahl Index and local Gini coefficient to make a futher analysis.In Chapter 5, we make an evaluation to the effect of industrial agglomeration onlocal economic growth on the basis of the sample of data of 88 categories ofmanufacturing industries in China for 2003, 2004 and 2005, for which we conduct intra co-agglomeration index and inner agglomeration index as explaining variablesand put specification index and firm scale under control. It is concluded that intraco-agglomeration index and inner agglomeration index have significant influence onlabor productivity which, however, make obvious difference between the east, middleand west area in China. The empirical results are explained by the theory of productcycle developed by Hoover (1937) and Henderson et al.(1995).Chapter 6 is the conclusion, where we give a brief review to this paper and makesome summarizations. We also propose some policy advice based on our studies. Atlast, we review some shortcomings in this paper and outline our further studies infuture.
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