Shantou Special Economic Zone Development Research

The devepment of economy district and compartmentalizing is one of the core of regional economics. CHAOSHAN include SHANTOU, CHAOZHOU, JIEYANG, it is a alone geographical region. The common ground of them involve in more people but little terra; well-known native place of foreign Chinese; close to Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan. Near to international gold sea-route in the west of Pacific Ocean; No matter language, culture, geographical location, life style or economy development what CHAOSHAN is a special geographical region. It is one of preferable cases in studying city economy enclose.Since 1994, coast of the economy of SHANTOU region appeared. Many industries sagged, consuming of community reduced. Many people began to go out to live, the foreigner didn't regard SHANTOU as ideal place in profit of them. The credit crisis break out in early 2000, the impact was large and deep. The economy of SHANTOU got behind of one of cities in Peal delta, It come true that "the situation of opening to whole disimention basing itself upon the SHANTOU specials, eradiating around the east of Guangdong, developing the inside, serving to entire country, looking on the world"? that "the throughput of SHANTOU port was the third in China in 1930's "? As a special economy and port city, why SHANTOU lagged in Guangdong province?Several problems urge us to study CHAOSHAN, to get aptitude orientation and development advice. The paper constitutes three parts:In the first part, it addresses itself to the development characteristic of SHANTOU economy region. It's core had come through JIEYANG, CHAOZHOU, TINGZHOU, CHAOZHOU and SHANTOU.In the second part, it studies the economy location of SHANTOU economy region, from physical geographical location, human geographical location, geomantic omen location, the competition of many ports, the circle theory to economy internationalizing.In the third part, it works over the functions of the cities in SHANTOU economy region, in both determining the nature and rational. The former in major relate the objection in state of cities in SHANTOU using both the dual-nucleus structure and the central theory; The latter elicits the differentiate in cities functions in SHANTOU region using divide the work inside one tract, through fix quantify stat of clustering analysis.Lastly, three questions have induced in SHANTOU economy region, they are abnormal developing, the non-reason in structure of cities functions, the geographical cause of SHANTOU credit crisis. So some advices have brought forward.