A Study On Regional Location Collapse In Gansu Province

China has taken unbalanced regional development strategies and the correspondingregional preferential policies and rapidly formed the formation of three gradient developmenttrends of coastal, central and inland regions since the policy of Reform and Opening up.However, because the nation’s policies focus on economic efficiency, national investmentsand other policies tilted to the east, and various factors of production gathered to the east, thegap between the east and the west has been growing greatly. Non-balanced developmentstrategy can not settle the issue that the regional economic disparities in China have enlarged.Such trend has an extremely negative impact on China’s national economic development andlong-term stability. Since then, the new strategy focuses on coordinated development ofeastern, central and western regions to achieve common prosperity development. The westernregion is landlocked, the economy is backward, the overall economy is weaker than that ofthe east, in addition, the natural conditions are poor and the development costs are high andthe comparative efficiency is low, so it is difficult to transform into market, industrial oreconomic advantages. Especially the remote provinces, like Gansu Province, although it isChina’s geographic center, it is far away from the political, economic and consumer center,and the sea ports. The leading role of the coastal areas has a weak effect on Gansu. Afterjoining the WTO, China has been into a sustained and rapid development stage in general, butGansu’s strategic position declines rapidly. At this background, in order to establish thestrategic position of sustainable development, promote decisions and provide the theoreticalbasis and methods, the research of the feasible method that improving the status of Gansuprovince in the national strategy has the practical significance.The topic of this paper is a part of “Gansu’s Selections in Enhancing the StrategicPosition of the Country”, which is the major project of Gansu Province Social SciencePlanning. Based on the study of the project, the writer first defines what the regional locationcollapse is, then determines the regional location collapse in Gansu Province. As a result, itshows that there is there is the absolute collapse and relative collapse of the regional location.Judging from the aspects of transportation, human resources and industry, the writer makes aconclusion of the main factors of Gansu province’s collapse by analyzing the indicator data ofGansu with other regions. Subsequently, after selecting indicators, the writer makes theempirical analysis of the factors affecting the regional location collapse of Gansu using thedata of1990-2010. The main conclusions are as follows: Firstly, transportation, talents andindustry is the Granger reason of GDP, which shows that transportation, talents and industryare important factors of regional location collapse in Gansu province. What’s more,transportation is the greatest factor. This shows that plays a key role to improve the regional location collapse in Gansu province. Thirdly, Industry the second influential factor and thetalent is the least influential factor. Finally, we comes the revelation through analysis: channeleconomy should be developed, and the development of anti-marginalization should beconsidered; the evolution of industrial structure and economic growth patterns should bepromoted; the regional qualified personnel should be cultivated and strengthened; industrialclusters and policy environment which is conducive to the development of urbanizationshould be established; investment should be increased to ensure the stability and improvementof the ecological environment.