Agglomeration development is the essence of economic activity; industrial agglomeration is the general rule of economic development, the inevitable product of industrialisation advancement, the important origin of industrial competitive power, and embodies the concentration of regional economic levels of development. The competitive advantage displayed by industrial agglomeration promotes economies of scale, innovation and technical proliferation, and brings from this a deepened specialisation in the division of work with characteristic cooperation. This has vital significance regarding the promotion of local industry's competitive power and coordinated development. Within the economic globalisation and with the background of regional economic integration in the development process of industrialisation under the conditions of a market economy, the significance of research in industrial distribution lies in how to fully utilise the rules and effects of industrial agglomeration, and unify the functions of government and market mechanisms; to adjust and optimise local industrial distribution; to guide the impetus leading industrial agglomeration development; and to promote both the optimisation of industrial structure and industrial international competitive power. This then can enhance the regional competitive power, provide reasonable and effective disposition of resources, create advantages for the development of regional economic and industrial environment, and realise sustainable development.The State Council of the Central Party Committee will develop the Tianjin New Coastal Area to integrate it into the overall National strategy, and Tianjin welcomes this rare historical opportunity. How is the important pillar of Tianjin industry within the ever-growing Tianjin economy going to face this opportunity; what role is played in the recent developments in economic globalisation and the shift in the manufacturing industry in the tidal currents of reorganisation; how to cultivate the particular characteristics of the manufacturing industry; how to complete facing the world with a modernised manufacturing industry; how to establish Tianjin's industrial status in the global division of labour; the need for on-going advancement of Tianjin's industrial distribution; and the need to continue in-depth consideration of the development pattern of Tianjin's manufacturing industry. Precisely centred on such considerations, this article, based on the theory of industrial agglomeration, has conducted research into Tianjin's industrial distribution.This article has firstly carried out a systematic review of industrial agglomeration theory and basic connotations; formed the mechanisms, influencing factors, laws of development, and functional effect, as well as examined the industrial agglomeration growth, the function of industrial structure adjustment to the promotion of regional... |