Study On Spatial Agglomeration Of Catering Industry In Shanghai

While catering industry is closely related to the daily life of residents, current research on it is still not sufficient both on domestic and international academy. This article is intended to study on spatial agglomeration of catering industry both comparatively and systematically by focusing on four aspects:"Does the catering industry gather?", "Where does it gather?","How does the agglomeration affect itself?"and "What is the relationship between it and other services?"First of all, I analyze the catering industry of Shanghai based on the revised EG index and find that the catering industry of Shanghai agglomerates in the medium level. Then the industrial concentration is applied to define the index on the spatial agglomeration of catering industry. It comes to conclusion the catering industry gathers with a similar level of catering businesses. According to the principal component scores, the development of the catering industry of Jing’an district, Huangpu district, Changning district, Xuhui district, Minhang district and the Pudong new district are in a relative high level. Based on the indicators relevant to the catering industry,17 districts and counties of Shanghai are divided into 4 classes using the method with system clustering.In addition, the calculation result of global Moran value shows that the catering industry in Shanghai has the characteristic of the spatial autocorrelation. Besides, according to the results of the local Moran value, the catering industry of center districts in Shanghai, Jing’an district and Huangpu district, in particular, play a tremendous leading role. In contrast, the catering industry of those districts disconnected with center districts are not well developed. Although catering industry of the Pudong new district develops with a large scale, it is also not advanced enough in the meanwhile. The following study shows that the catering industry is positively related to the sports service industry and negatively related to the health service.Finally, the study on the relationship between catering and other service industries using geographic contact ratio and the regression model shows that the geographical spatial distribution of catering industry is highly consistent with other service industries.Compared to previous research, this paper makes the following progress on the whole. (1)It enriches the study of service agglomeration by studying the characteristic of agglomeration of catering industry in Shanghai adopting various methods. (2)The studies on the spatial agglomeration of catering industry, spatial correlation and the relationship with other service industries are using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods. (3)It promotes study on spatial agglomeration of city catering industry using the crowdsourcing data to solves the problem of traditional data in studying urban spatial structure which is difficult to acquire and is of small amount and poor timeliness.