| With the evolution of the process of economic globalization and regional economicintegration, capital, information, resources and technology gradually formed aninterdependent, interaction network within a region. The cities are the key nodes whichcan support the network system. As an important form of urban spatial framework, thebirth and development of urban clusters can help to resolve the regional looselyeconomic relation, irrational industrial division, lack of integrity for eco-environmentalimprovement which caused by the split of the administrative divisions. Urban clusterswhich rely on metropolitan cities have become the most active economically region, andbegan to dominate the national economy and global economy.In recent years, along with the rapid advance of urbanization of the central regions,many problems appeared in related cities and urban clusters. Considering the rationalallocation of resources, the whole benefit and corporations from the overall Centralregionals, how to achieve integrated development of the central city group has become avery necessary to in-depth study topic.This paper focus on the development and integration of urban clusters, take thecentral regional urban clusters as an example and the competitiveness of the central citygroup as the aim objectThis paper divide into seven sections, which separately describe the researchbackground, research significance, main content, research methods and innovations;also include the integrated concept of urban clusters, the theory base and the main mode;also introduce and describe the central urban clusters from the space extent, thedevelopment characteristics and currently situation and challenges; rely on the themodel, data collection, quantitative analysis of closely linked to the degree of the centralcity of the central region of six representative, find the entry point of the integration ofurban clusters in the central region, analysis Wuhan-Zhengzhou-Changsha citiessituation; finally pointed out the significance of strategy and path integration of thecentral urban clusters, finally get the conclusions. |
