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| STUDY ON THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF QINGDAO'S BUSSINESS CENTERS |
| ZHAO Jian-jun |
| Department of Geography, Teachers College, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China |
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Abstract The study demonstrates that historical business centers have a variety of business functions and are always of street shape or block shape, but the newly-built centers have less business functions relatively and often have loosely-distributed commercial facilities. The study also indicates that owing to the government planning and the location of foreign retailing enterprises, the business belt is coming into being in the inner city and the business centers are germinating in the suburb, but the suburbanization of retailing has not started. Beside these, some RBD business centers are produced in the coastal belt, which is Qingdao's commercial character. The influential factors of the spatial structure of Qingdao's business centers include:the spatial distribution of people and their buying capacities; the amount and the spatial course of the circulating people; the change of the shopping behavior.
The paper indicates progressively that the problems of Qingdao's spatial structure of business centers include:irrational location of the business centers and improper structure of business state; decline of the historical business centers; no well-known business centers for the visitors and imperfection of the shopping environment, etc. Based on the full use of the present commercial facilities, specialized business district should be built actively in historical business centers, so that the functional structure and business-state structure as well as spatial structure could be perfected gradually. In Zhongshan Road business center, RBD function should be stressed, making it a famous shopping center for the visitors. Finally, the shopping environment should be ameliorated, because the business centers' competitiveness depend not only on their commercial scale and business-state structure, but also on the infrastructure such as transportation, parking place, grassland and recreational square etc, which can enhance the business centers' comprehensive competitiveness and which is also a very important tool for the government to guide the commercial enterprises' location.
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Received: 28 May 2003
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2005, Vol. 20 
