A Quantitative Research On Economic Contacts Among Cities

Along with the social-economic development, the various contacts between cities and regions are becoming more and more close and complicated. Although the research on regional characteristic and difference was dominant in geography thoroughly, traditional positive research on economic location and contacts was weak in quantitative methods, one of the main reasons was the shortage of statistic data. By the research on course of regional economic contacts, discusses its formation and contents, determines its major contact directions, will be in favor of regional economic division and cooperation, and promotes balanced, sustainable and healthy development of the regional economy.In the trend of information, knowledge and new technology revolution, as the main body of region competition based on their traditional meanings, Cities show itself deficiency evidently. Now urban agglomerations have become the basical cell participate in the international competition. Discusses the elements of formation and development about urban agglomerations spatial economic contacts, will be in favor of understanding of its spatial and industrial structure, definitudes its effect and status in region and nation, as the necessary supports for theory and decision-making of industrial division and functional judgment.This paper discusses the theories of spatial contacts and functional contacts, calculates and analyzes the economic contact intensity and urban flows intensity, researches on the course and mechanism about urban agglomerations spatial economic contacts, and also brings forward relevant theory summarizes and suggestions. Besides preface and conclusions, this thesis consists of four parts.Part one is advances in the research of economic contacts. Above all, the paper sums up research conditions of economic contacts between China and other countries, considers that spatial interaction is the fundamental relationship in all kinds of economic contacts, introduces the major directions of economic contacts that make the important function for urban development. And then, the author summarizes the research conditions of economic contacts from two angles of view.Part two is concepts and models research on spatial economic contacts. By use of...