| On the basal principle Regional Economics, Institutional Economics, Industrial Economics and Developmental Economics, this paper study the developmental mechanism of Metropolitan Area using the methods of system theory, operational research and linear programming. This paper discusses mainly the rules of formation, development and evolvement about Metropolitan Area. These rules consist in the connection of Metropolitan Area and urbanization, opening towards the world, institutional transformation, and marketization. At last, this paper probes into the harmonious and developmental problem of Metropolitan Area as an example. This paper consists of six parts:The first part deals with the basal theory about Metropolitan Area. Beginning with the concept of Metropolitan Area, this paper analyzes the structure of it, sets forth the difference and connection between Metropolitan Area and other concepts, discusses the component mode of space, opens out the evolutive process of time and space and generalizes the influencing factors of Metropolitan Area.The second part deals with the formative foundation of Metropolitan Area------urbanization. Beginning with the developmental rules of urbanization, thepaper emphasizes to clarify the inevitable connections between Metropolitan Area and city structure, city scale, and city system. At the same time, this part demonstrates that urbanization is the base of forming Metropolitan Area. On the base of analyzing the basal of urbanization, this part establishes the mode of judging the developmental phase of Metropolitan Area.The third part is about the developmental motivity of Metropolitan Area.....marketization. Through analyzing the example, on the one hand, this paper clarifies that the formative course of Metropolitan Area is actually a course of marketization, the higher degree of marketization is, the more mature the Metropolitan Area is;On the other hand, the paper proves that the order and mode of marketization influences the evolutive and developmental speed of it.The formative key of Metropolitan Area.....institutional transformation isstudied in the fourth part of the paper. From the connection of economic increase and institutional transformation, this part posts that the institutional transformation is in favor of economic increase ifthe transformation is fit for it whether the institutional transformation is compulsive or not come-hither.The fifth part emphasizes the formative condition of Metropolitan Area.......opening towards the world. As a kind of exterior force, the opening towardsthe world promotes the industrial scale to enlarge, industrial structure to adjust and upgrade, and formation of Metropolitan Area to get quickly. The degree of opening towards the world is full-face correlation with the formative speed of Metropolitan Area, the higher the degree of opening towards the world is, the more mature the Metropolitan Area.On the base of anterior research about Metropolitan Area, the last part the harmonious development of it. This part analyzes the developmental aims of different Metropolitan Areas, clarifies the mechanism of harmony, and puts forward the mode of harmonious development. At last, as the example of Wuhan Metropolitan Area, this paper brings forward the built-in points and emphasis to accelerate it to assort with development. |