Research On Regional Development And Spatial Structure Of The Yangtze River Delta

Yangtze River Delta is an urban agglomeration that is composed of sixteen cities of Zhejiang province and Jiangsu province in which Shanghai is the leader. It has advantaged condition that the river and the sea join, and also is the center of south and north. With the programming of Yangtze River Delta included in the eleventh five years, the tenor of the economic unification of Yangtze River Delta will expedite the project immediately.Regional development and spatial structure is one of the important fields in human geography. The paper takes the Yangtze River Delta to discuss the main methods to optimize the urbanization and the evolvement of spatial structure in the Yangtze River Delta and features, trend and mechanism of the spatial structure evolution. Considering both historical and future development, the paper explores the way for optimizing regional structure with region as a practical coordinate. The article includes 4 aspects:1. The paper announces to the public that regional development has a close relationship with spatial structure by the dialectical viewpoints. According analyzing the connotation and the interrelation of regional development and spatial structure, the paper opens out the relation of regional development and the urbanization of the spatial structure and the course of the spatial structure.2. The paper analyzes the environment of the regional development of the Yangtze River Delta with the viewpoints of the overall situation. First, treating the Yangtze River Delta as a whole and catching hold of the form of the Yangtze River Delta, we make a visualized analysis of the geographical environment and human environment.3. The paper analyzes the course of the regional development and spatial structure of the Yangtze River Delta with the viewpoints of history. Through the description and analysis of its regional development and the evolvement of its spatial structure, the paper points out the mode of the adjustment and optimization of its regional spatial structure.4. The paper recognizes that the regional development of the Yangtze River Delta will be in face of the new position by the science development view. Then, we will know the specific measures to optimize the urbanization and the evolvement of spatial structure in the Yangtze River Delta contains as following: the goals, the strategies and methods to optimize spatial structure.