| A variety of ways for agro-product sales in network is one of the main characteristics of the development of rural e-commerce,and it is also a new way for rural households to increase their product income.As a major agricultural province in China,Hebei Province has a solid agricultural base and is abundant in agro-product.The emergence of agro-product e-commerce has injected new vitality into agricultural development.The research on the spatial issues and industrial chain characteristics of agro-product e-commerce is of great significance to scientifically determine its future development and its regional impact in geography.This article is based on the agro-product shops in the "New Rural Commercial Network" and "Taobao",conducting an in-depth study of agro-product e-commerce in Hebei Province.Using the agro-product shops data from 2005 to 2017,the spatial-temporal pattern of different types of agro-product online shops are discussed from three scales: provincial,municipal and county scale using the location Gini coefficient,location entropy,concentration index,qualitative and quantitative analysis.And further from the research perspective of the industry chain to analyze its specific characteristics and spatial characteristics from the three dimensions of supply chain,value chain,and enterprise chain.The findings are as follow:(1)All or different types of agro-product shops in Hebei Province have different distribution characteristics at different scales.First of all,the agro-product shops in Hebei Province are mainly characterized by diffusion distribution,but the degree of concentration is gradually increasing;In the city and county scales,the agro-product shops are mainly concentrated,especially in the Shijiazhuang City and surrounding areas,such as Gaocheng District,Zhaoxian County,Jinzhou City,and other H-H agglomeration areas.Secondly,all types of agro-product shops in Hebei Province have a high degree of balance in distribution and are basically in a balanced distribution of "middle and high levels";However,there is a significant difference in the concentration degree of distribution in the city and county areas.Among them,livestock and animal husbandry shops have the highest degree of concentration in Langfang City.The specific trends are distributed in counties(cities,districts)such asYongqing County and Guantao County.Overall,the distribution of agro-product shops in Hebei province tends to be concentrated in areas with high traffic accessibility,high degree of economic development,and rich specialty agro-product.(2)The agro-product shops in Hebei Province showed different characteristics and spatial distribution under different industrial chain dimensions.First,the distribution of agro-product shops in Hebei province under the supply chain dimension,which is characterized by "large diffusion and small gathering";The supply chain is dominated by retailers,followed by wholesalers,vegetables and seedlings and flowers are the two types of shops with the highest degree of concentration.They are mainly distributed in Weichang County and Dingzhou City.Second,the agro-product shops value chain in Hebei Province are mainly raw material products,widely distributed,but the primary processing and deep processing products also show a good momentum of development,both of which tend to be concentrated in urban district.All kinds of agro-product shops are also mainly based on raw materials products,the value chain is generally short,and product types are simple.Finally,the form of platform trading center in the corporate chain dimension is the highest proportion among agro-product shops in Hebei Province,and the self-employed manufacturers ranks second;However,due to the impact of industrial clusters and economies of scale,shops in the form of industrial parks have the highest proportion,mainly distributed in the more developed areas of industrial parks,for example,Yongnian District of Handan City.At the same time,the chain structure of different types of shops are different,and the distribution areas are also different.However,in general,the form of platform trading center plays an important role in all kinds of shops.(3)The paper combines the traditional geographic perspective with the industrial chain theory,and analyzes the distribution characteristics of different types of agro-product shops in different geographic spatial scales in Hebei Province and the development characteristics of Hebei Province's agro-product shops under different industrial chain dimensions,which will provide a basis for a clear grasp of the industrial advantages of Hebei Province and various regions and the development level of e-commerce of agro-product,promoting the coordinated development of the region.However,the study still needs further improvement,and tries touse more new perspectives and levels to analyze the characteristics of the industrial chain of agro-product shops in Hebei Province,so as to provide more reference for geography in the multi-disciplinary fusion research process. |
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