Research On Cross-border Coordination And Integration Of The Greater Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration

The Greater Pearl River Delta Urban agglomeration as the first urban agglomerati ons across system boundaries in our country. It’s cross-border coordination and cooperatio n has been highly concern and attention. In the context of economic globalization, Urban agglomeration as the basic unit of participation in the global division of labor and coop eration, competitiveness size depends critically on the degree of integration. An obstacle t o the integration of urban agglomeration was mainly due to administrative boundaries for the region segmentation, cross-border coordination usually manifest as the cross-border c ooperation between the different administrative units, so how the relationship between the two is very worth studying.The master’s thesis on the basis of previous studies, combine cross-border coordinati on and integration of Urban agglomeration, choose the Greater Pearl River Delta city gro up as the research object, explore and analysis the relationship between cross-border coor dination and integration of Urban agglomeration. Using the gravity model included conve rgence analysis and the Price Law, respectively, from the two levels measure the integrati on of the Greater Pearl River Delta city group quantitativly. According to the results of quantitative analysis, then combine with the practice of cross-border coordination in the Greater Pearl River Delta to analyze cross-border coordination as a role in promoting the integration of urban agglomeration, from the aspect of trade flows, industry, market, infr astructure and others. Finally pointing out the plight of the cross-border coordination and integration of Urban agglomeration, then gives policy recommendations.The main conclusions are as follows:the boundary effect on the two levels of the Greater Pearl River Delta Urban agglomeration is declining overally, thus the Greater Pea rl River Delta Urban agglomeration is developing towards the direction of integration. At the same time, both theoretical analysis and empirical analysis prove that cross-border c oordination could promote the integrated development of Urban agglomerations.