Research On Industry Agglomeration And Its Spatial Organization In Changchun-Jilin Area

As a remarkable economic geography phenomenon during the process ofindustrialization, industry agglomeration has caught much more attention in recentyears in the field of Economic Geography, Management Science and so on. And muchwork has been done and series of achievements have been achieved. Yet the study ofindustry agglomeration at present which base on national macro scale for study area ismore often, a microscopic region’s research, especially research on a region with closeeconomic ties within one province is unusual. However, study industry agglomerationmodel and its spatial organization in different space scale helps to deepen theunderstanding of it. The purpose of this article is to provide empirical evidence on thegeographic concentration of manufacturing industry in a micro scale withinChangchun-Jilin area, to explore the influencing factors of this phenomenon and tostudy the characteristics of spatial organization of automobile industry in this area.And it is hoped that the research on industry agglomeration in this area can shed lighton cultivating regional environment of industrial agglomeration, improving regionalcompetition and making use of the industry agglomeration advantages to improveregional economic development. The main contents include the following aspects:1. Some related concepts about industry agglomeration are discussed firstly,based on which this paper combs the theories related to the industry agglomeration,such as industry district theory, industrial location theory，the new industry districttheory, new trade theory, the new economic geography theory and the competitiveadvantage of nations theory. After that, a comprehensive review on regional industryagglomeration is conducted through three perspectives of the measure of industryagglomeration, the influencing factors and spatial organization of industryagglomeration.2. Regional backgrounds of industry agglomeration in Changchun-Jilin area areanalyzed, including resources and environment basis and social-economic basis. Then,the article studies the regional industrial structure and its evolution characteristics. Onthe basis of distribution of industrial value-added at the county level in this area, thetotal situation of industry agglomeration is also summarized in this part.3. Using the2nd Economic Census data of Jilin Province in2008, industryagglomeration was measured using Locational Gini Coefficient in Changchun-Jilinarea and the characteristics of industries which have a high Gini Coefficient wereanalyzed. Base on that, we analyze the impacts of regional characteristic ofChangchun-Jilin area on industry agglomeration by combining the industry agglomeration related theories. And then industrial attributes influences on industryagglomeration are also explored in this area using multivariate regression analysis.4. Automobile industry agglomeration and its distribution are studied in theregion of Changchun-Jilin. In this part, takes Changchun City for example, the paperdiscussed the distribution of auto firms and its revolution characteristics andexamined the pattern of spatial organization of auto industry in this area.