The Research On The Relationship Of The Development Of Distribution Industry And The Process Of Urbanization In Guangzhou

Guangzhou is the central city of Pearl River Delta economic region. Benefit for its excellence location, Guangzhou plays an important role of foreign trade, the domestic regional production and material exchange, as well as coordinating social division of labor in all ages. With the development of reform and opening policy, Guangzhou has been made a rapid progress in urbanization and constant optimizing of economic environment; meanwhile the distribution industry has made considerable development. However, due to lack of awareness of the importance of distribution industry, only a simple expansion of urban areas promotes the urbanization process, rather than coordinating the development of them, so that the development of distribution industry and urbanization are subject to constraints. On top of this, make sure the relationship of the development of distribution industry and urbanization of Guangzhou is the key is to promote the common development in distribution industry and urbanization.On the basis of collecting and integrating the domestic and foreign scholars' research results on the relationship of the development of distribution industry and urbanization, this paper summed up the intrinsic link between distribution industry and urbanization firstly. Secondly, by analyzing the 1978-2006 annual statistical data of Guangzhou, this paper reviewed the development process of distribution industry and urbanization respectively on the stage of five phases. Since then, this paper established the VAR (Vector Autoregression) model, then used Johansen co-integration test and Granger causality test method to educe the relationship of the development of distribution industry and the process of urbanization. Research showed that the development of distribution industry is an important reason to improve the level of urbanization in Guangzhou, but the urbanization can not have effect on the development of distribution industry. Finally, on the basis of a new awareness on this issue, this paper put forward some policy recommendations about promoting the development of distribution industry and urbanization of Guangzhou.