The Beijing-Kowloon Railway has been operated for more than years since1996's. Before the railway opening, railway mileage in Jiangxi Province is short. The transportation is in poor conditions. Because of the operation of The Beijing-Kowloon Railway, economy of Jiangxi province was promoted and economic structure has been optimized. It made a greater contribution for the region's economic development and social progress.Although there are many research on the impact for the region's economic development and social progress by railway. This paper will study from a new point, the scope of city's influence. This purpose is to researching the impact before and after the Beijing-Kowloon railway influence through the city's the scope of city's influence evolution process.This paper establishes the city strength index system. Using principal component analysis, the paper calculates the city strength of11cities in Jiangxi province form1992to2000. The paper forecasting the city strength of11cities in Jiangxi province form1996to2000without operation of The Beijing-Kowloon Railway by using Gray forecast. Using this date Describe the zoning map of city sphere of influence in Jiangxi Province based on the weighted Voronoi diagram. This paper has a analysis on impact by The Beijing-Kowloon Railway through the changes of urban economic impaction space.Based on the above analysis, the main conclusion is that the Beijing-Kowloon Railway had great impacts on the urban economic impaction space of cities in Jiangxi province. It narrows the gap of city strength of11cities in Jiangxi province. A T economic growth area is growing. The horizontal axis is Nanchang and Jiujiang.The vertical axis is cities along the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. The Beijing-Kowloon Railway had a great contribution to the society and economic development of cities along the Railway. |