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| CAPITAL CENTRALIZATION INDEX AND URBANIZATION MODEL OF WEST CHINA |
| XUN Yi1, WU Dian-ting1, YE Dan-nian1,2 |
1. Resources and Environmental department of Beijing normal university, Beijing 100875, China;
2. The Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, Beijing 100101, China |
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Abstract City is the engine of the progress of a society.The largest city in a country or a district should become the primary undertaker of various activities. It is also a place that has great centralization. Urban primacy index is the earliest index to describe conditions of urban scale. But with the development of economy, the increase of population in the city of second degree, urban primacy index can't describe the characteristics of urban system well and the degree of population centralization degree in the capital city. For this reason, this paper puts forward a new concept——Capital centralization index (CCI), and calculates the capital centralization index of different countries in the world. In consideration of city capital that administrative area boundary of complete, we can divide the Capital centralization index (CCI)into different level of structure. Compares and contrasts Chinese CCI with World's Muscovite CCI distribution curves, we found that Chinese Capital centralization index (CCI) distributes dispersedly. Its capital centralization index (CCI)is a mature distribution. From that we get the conclusion:big cities in China have great potentiality. It is important for China to develop big cities' agglomeration economy. West China has large region and small population. Natural condition is extremely like Russia;By comparative analysis of Russia and western Capital centralization index (CCI)distribution, we can put forward the developing modes of western regions. In order to save constructive fund, protect weak ecological environment, it's necessary for the economy and population to have a concentrative distribution. Construction in small regions can bring high input, high output and strong administration.Environmental protection, low disturbance, low destruction, and gradual restoration are carried out simultaneously in large regions. So, at first we should build well grade primary city of different degree.This is consistent with increasing pole theory.
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Received: 26 August 2002
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2003, Vol. 18 
