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| SPARSE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TOWNSHIP-VILLAGE OWNED INDUSTRY IN THE PEARL RIVER DELTA-A Case Study of Beijiao Township, Shunde City |
| XUE De-sheng1, LI Chuan2, CHEN Hao-guang1, XU Xue-qiang1 |
1 Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
2 Shaanxi administration School, Xi'an 710068, China |
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Abstract The spatial distribution of XiangZhen industries has been one of the focus of the geographers' and planners' studies since 1980s.Instead of the existint studies which have attributed the XiangZhen industry's spatial distribution to the firm's external environment, like the national land use policy, the industrial enterprise itself in this paper has been chosen as the research approach to explore the main driving force for its spatial distribution.The Pearl River Delta (PRD)was chosen in this paper as the research region, where XiangZhen industry has been groaing very fast.Most of the research is focused on Beijiao, the case study township, and has got the highest industrial development level in the townships in the region and typical dispersed industrial distribution.
Based on the case study and the discriminant analysis to the firms' questionnaire material, Six factors of the firm, ownership, scale, demand for the infrastructure, types of linkages among firms, interal organization and running stability, have been found to mainly lead to the dispersed distribution of the XinagZhen industries in Beijiao.
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Received: 25 February 2001
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2001, Vol. 16 
