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| THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF CORPS WORKERS' ACTIVITIES IN THE DESERT——A Case Study of The NO.3 Company of a Regiment in Xinjiang Production And Construction Corps |
| WU Na-lin1, LI Xiao-jian1,2 |
1. College of Environment & Planning/Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China;
2. Institute of Regional Sustainable Development, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou 475002, China |
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Abstract This paper presents the NO.3 company of a regiment in Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps located in the north edge of Gurbantunggut Desert with increasing level of commercial business center in its north direction. After investigating on the traveling activities throughout the year of 2009 of all its land contracts household, this paper get some conclusions as follows. Firstly, most of production implements which are used of high frequency or not easily to be transported are bought in the nearest place. Secondly, they usually go to different places for commodities. Thirdly, the households are not sensitive to the places where they purchase high-grade daily necessities and the trail of their traveling shows a "symmetric" character in space. Fourthly, durable goods,such as clothes, are bought in "non-near or far" business centers by households. It is because some households are inclining to nearest and small clothing market. Others, especially young consumers are like to go large shopping centers. Fifthly, most of the households in the third company sale their agricultural products to the factories which locate in middle distance or nearest places, so the behavior place of marketing of agricultural products scatter in close places. In conclusion, different behavior present different space form. Some concentrate in near places, some mainly locate in far distance places, and some are not sensitive to distance or the market size. But, if calculating the times and the corresponding places that all households have gone throughout the year of 2009, the authors find that both near and long distance places where households are frequently to go, however, the middle distance places are not, consequently, this behavior formed the "central collapse" spatial character.
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Received: 19 September 2010
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2011, Vol. 26 
