| The civilization of nation or an area depends to some extent on the development of its cities. The Law of the success of developed countries or regions shows the central cities or Urban Agglomerations always contribute tremendously to the growth of a regional economy. It is predicted that the economy of the developing countries in the 21st century will be city-or- Urban Agglomerations -centered.In this essay, the author holds that the inevitable alternative To develop Hunan province is the integration of cities of changsha, zhuzhou and xiangtan called chang-zhu-tan for short.In this process, the industrial cluster plays a decisive role .The industrial development, indispensable for the development of Urban Agglomerations, is not that of an individual industry. Therefore, the development of the chang-zhu-tan industry lies in industrial cluster forming industrial groups clusters.Industrial cluster is a global economic phenomenon .It refers to every organic systematic industrial group with enormous connected industries cluster in line with some economic relation within a given economic region, which consits of many industries of the same kind producing a particular product and their corresponding densely-concentrated industries or services. Through various channels like lowering costs, encouraging innovation, raising efficiency and enhancing competition, this industrial cluster can efficiency and enhancing competition, this industrial cluster can promote the competitiveness of the whole region, facilitating the formation of a regional competitive advantage and the collective competitiveness of a regional competitive advantage and the collective competitiveness of industries A wide variety of zones ranging from hi-tech development zones prevalent worldwide to pioneer zones are new industrial groups on the basis of industrial cluster, hence gaining high productivity and sustained competitive advantages.By introducing in the essay the classic theory on industrial cluster and city competitiveness the author concludes that industrial cluster does play a major role in the development of Chang-zhu-tan Urban Agglomerations. The author also introduces the development and the experience in other countries and emphasizes the great significance of industrial cluster on the increase Chang-Zhu-Tan regional city competitiveness and the enhancement of regional citification . Meanwhile, it is claimed a necessity to foster closely connected industrial cluster Chang-zhu-tan region.In the process of industrial cluster much significance should be attached to the industrial development zones, including national and Provincial hi-tech industrial zones, IT software zones , export processing zones; open economic zones ,etc , because these zones are planned or designed by government or its admistrative divisions enjoying more advantages in capital, policy and labor. In this essay, different industrial priorities are also discussed in accordance with the advantages in the three cities.The industrial development is an open rather than a closed one , requiring the removal of administrative barriers and the setting up of a new regional economic system while taking advantages of resources and systems in there areas to facilitate the establishment of a favorable environment where the innovative industries can make sustained and efficient progresses, encouraging technological improvements and structural upgrade and promoting the quality of economic growth and the regional competitiveness. Furthermore the positive stepping in of government and other intermediary agencies also exerts crucial influence on industrial cluster because they can regulate and bring order into he markets to make them run more efficiently and consequently specialize the industrial groups to a higher level.In summary, to make Hunan province an economic power and optimize the economic structure, the organic "bundling", the integrationof Chang-zhu-tan, on the basis of industrial cluster is a necessity for its functioning as a comprehensive economic center gov...
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