| The ongoing globalization has evolved a system of world labor division and city gradient. In Yangtze Delta Metropolitan Area, the process of regional economic integration is being led by the polarization of Shanghai. Changzhou, being a middle-sized city in the area, is being influenced both by the regional and municipal forces in its way of developing manufacturing industries. It is necessary for her to take advantage of her strong points and the beneficial trends.The study first distinguishes the advantageous and leading industries through analyzing industrial structure, efficiency, life circle, industrial link and chain, etc. Then, it goes to study the cooperation channels for the manufacturing industries of the city with regional economy. At last, it proposes some suggestions for the spatial location of the manufacturing industries, based on the theory of industrial location theory of the knowledge economy. |