| Regional urbanization and urban regionalization are the important performance of different stages of regional integration in space. The process of regional urbanization are affected together by centralization economy, scale economy and scope economy, there will appear the economic district of high ability inside the region which can arouse and facilitate the process of regional integration. Under the background of economic globalization, the development of regional integration deeply affects the international competitive ability of region or even nation. Wuhan Metropolitan Area, an integration of urban district consists of a vice-province city (Wuhan), five subordinate cities ( Huangshi, Huanggang, Ezhou, Xiaogan, Xianning), and three county ( Xiantao, Tianmen, Qianjiang ), is an economic district which is most densely distributed in population, industry and city of Hubei province. To facilitate actively the development of regional integration of Wuhan Metropolitan Area can effectively optimize the regional spatial structure of Hubei province, improve the regional competitive ability of Wuhan city and Hubei province, and provide the strategic support for the development of central region.In view of the regional development and urbanization process, this paper looks back to the origin and evolution of some developmental theories relating to cities and regions of both home and abroad, identifies and analyzes the basic definitions of Metropolitan Area, Urban Agglomeration and Megalopolis. Then, the paper classifies its connotation, that is regional integration contains two levels of regional integration in economy and in space and both have the close relations, and discusses its developmental form in space ,theoretical foundation and dynamic mechanism. After that, the thesis pays more attention to analyze the current development of Wuhan Metropolitan Area, the paper concludes that there exist several problems in the process of regional integration. First, the building of infrastructure is of small scale, but the system of network is not perfect. Secondly, the structural contradiction of industry is prominent, the scale of industrial centralization is small, and the degree of industrial correlation is low. Thirdly, the building of market is short of united accordance and total relation, the allocation of the productive elements is not perfect. Fourth, the structure of city and town is not reasonable, and the gap between them is big. These situations indicate that there are many more other things needed to be done in the process regional integration of Wuhan Metropolitan Area. And analyzes reasons why they exist. Finally, the thesis puts forward and defines the strategic idea about the regional integration of Wuhan Metropolitan Area, and proposes some strategic solutions and advices for the development of regional integration, including strengthening the building of infrastructure, developing new industrialized road, accelerating the construction of market, improving the system of city and town and paying more attention to deal with the environment and protect the ecological surroundings. |
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