Spatial Clustering And The Formation Of Industrial Zones: Theoretical Study And Application Analysis

From the formation and evolution of industrial location and its theoretical innovation, this article holds that the agglomeration element has played an essential role in the formation of industrial location. Mainstream economics and economic geography all explain the course of agglomeration on the basis of the traditional location theory, but their starting points are different. In addition, their research methods and thinking modes differentiate each other a lot, yet can complement mutually. Research on industrial location links the two together, and can better explains the practice that forms the industrial location by synthesizing them together. In this thesis, there are five parts altogether.Chapter one focuses on historical development in industrial location. From the evolution of traditional industrial location theory, the thesis has analyzed the classical location theory, the neoteric location theory and the modern location theory from the perspective of time, and has comprehended the main schools of location theory: the cost school, the profit school and behavior school of location theory, from the perspective of theory. Then the thesis has analyzed the characteristics of location formation and evolution from the following three respects mainly. The first is the change of industrial location factors, that is, in various kinds of factors that form the location, the function of agglomeration is enlarged. The second is the change of the location scale. The article holds that the enterprise-manufacturer scale is in the lowest level, the industry-trade scale in the middle level, the area -belt scale in the highest level. The third is the variety of the location and the connection among value chains. At last, the article analyses the characteristics of systematic environment and historical changes that formed the industrial location in our country.Chapter two refers to new economic geography and new industrial geography -the new study in industrial location of western in recent years. This chapter has analyzed industrial location theory of new economic geography and new industrial geography. New economic geography whichis called geographical economics was put forward by the western mainstream economists. The article analyses the forming background of new economic geography, and holds thinks that its mechanisms are increasing-returns and incomplete competition, economies of scale and external economies, path-dependence and lock-in effect. Then this article analyses the forming process of industrial location from the interaction of transporting cost and economies of scale, accumulating effect and historical contingency. New industrial geography includes the new industrial district theory and new industrial space theory. The article has analyzed the forming mechanisms and location characteristics of the new industrial district and the new industrial space respectively. At last, the article has compared the location theory of new economic geography and that of new industrial geography, and has analyzed their differences in explaining location forming processes and mechanisms.In chapter three, the scale of the industrial location-difference and mechanism is studied. The chapter has first analyzed the characteristics of the industrial location in different scales. On the enterprise-manufacturer scale, it is shown as the location competition and expansion; on the industry-trade scale, it is shown as industry agglomeration under the effects of external economy and economies of agglomeration; on the area-belt scale, there are the connotations of the industry and of the area, It is the complex body of industry and area. Secondly, the chapter has analyzed the historic development of agglomeration mechanism formed in industrial location. At the stage of resources, the main mechanism is the economic effect that the natural endowment condition produced, At the stage of agglomeration led by economies of scale, perpendicular integrative production and manpower capital accumulation are working, At the agglomeration stage...