A Study On Capability Of Resource Agglomeration And Relationship Between That And Economic Growth In Western Regions

Since the implementation of the western development strategy for fifteen years, the economy of the western twelve provinces and municipalities is in rapid development, it showed a correlation of high degree between the resource agglomeration in the economic activities of all regions and the regional economic growth. With the continuous development of new economic geography created by Krugman, the analysis about agglomeration of various kinds of resource of liquidity in the regional economic activities has gradually become one of the most important points of view to explain the regional economic growth. In the real economy, the rapid development of the regional economy is basis on the flow of the variety of resources, so as to form the sustainable self-development mechanism in a cycling upward way as economic development to resource agglomeration to economic development. Under the guidance of market or government, the flow of the resources within the western can not only optimize the spatial structure of economy in the whole western regions, but also can promote the regional economic growth through the coupling and agglomeration of all kinds of resources in the same area; resource agglomeration is a way to an endogenous growth for the regional economy. The current situation of the development of China economy indicated that, whatever on the resources of human, capital or technology, there are significant differences between the eastern region, middle region and western region, of which the economic development of the western region is relatively backward. To examine the current situation of agglomeration of all kinds of resources in the western region systematically, to analyze the differences of all kinds of resources agglomeration, to raise the ability of resources agglomeration, is one of the key factors in the regional economic growth. The fusion of the new economic geography theory and the traditional economic growth theory has led a large number of new problems and experience about resources agglomeration and regional economic growth, On the basic of new economic geography and the traditional economic growth model, there are according to the empirical study it can not only enrich the existing research results, but also can provide policy reference for promoting ability of the regional resource agglomeration and accelerating the development of the regional economy.This paper is based on the traditional theory about economic growth, focus on the agglomeration process of the resources in the new economic geography theory, to establish an index to measure the regional ability of resources agglomeration including the human, capital and technology. Combined with the situation of the resources agglomeration in the western twelve provinces from 1999 to 2013, including qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis, using the extended Cobb-Douglas production function, it empirical test the agglomeration effects of all kinds of resources in the western region and reveal the role of the various resources agglomeration to regional economic growth through factor analysis and econometric analysis.First, using the method of factor analysis, from the five aspects including economic strength, human resources, capital resources, technical resources and the non-economic factors, to construct the index system of the ability of regional resource agglomeration, and empirical test the abilities of resources agglomeration of the western regions in 2013. The results show that, Sichuan Province in western provinces is the most prominent on the ability of resource agglomeration, can be the center of the whole western provinces; and Shaanxi, Chongqing, Guangxi, Yunnan and the Inner Mongolia, five provinces and municipalities on the ability of resource agglomeration are the second, indicating that these provinces have certain ability of resources agglomeration but they are not prominent, they can be the second centers; the regional resources agglomeration of the other six regions is not obvious, the development of regional economy is still need to be improved.Second, on the basic of the Cobb-Douglas production function in the traditional theory of economic growth, to extend to be the study of the relationship between human, capital and technology resources and economic growth, according to the results of the abilities of resources agglomeration in the western twelve regions, selecting the six regions of which the abilities are significant, using the related data from 1999 to 2013, to empirical test the linear relationship between the various resources agglomeration and regional economic growth in different regions. The results showed that, the resources agglomeration has a significant positive effect on regional economic growth, but the effects to regional economic growth are different from human, capital to technology resources in different regions, it should be appropriate to strengthen the attraction of the resource which has the best effect to the economic growth, in order to enlarge the effect of the resource agglomeration, promote the sustainable development of local economy in a cycling upward way.The innovation of this paper is simply summarized as following three aspects:(1) in the new normal economic situation, to explore the relationship between ability of the resource agglomeration and economic growth in the western region, is helpful to explore the new economic growth points of the western region, to improve regional ability of the resource agglomeration, to accelerate regional economic growth, ability of the resource agglomeration and economic growth promote each other, leading to a circular rise;(2) to construct the index system of ability of regional resources agglomeration which is more comprehensive, including human resources, capital resources and technical resources and so on;(3) replacing the two factors, labor force and capital, in the Cobb-Douglas production function about economic growth to three factors, human resource agglomeration, capital resource agglomeration and technical resource agglomeration, to verify that the various resources agglomeration is promoting regional economic growth, and reveal the different contributions to regional economic growth led by the agglomeration between different areas and different resources. According to the contribution to the economic growth of the resource agglomeration, each province should enhance the ability of the corresponding resources agglomeration, so as to realize the rapid development of regional economy.