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| RESEARCH ON THE SPATIAL EVOLUTION OF MANUFACTURING OF BEIJING |
| ZHENG Guo1,2 |
1. Institute of Regional Economics & Urban Management, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China;
2. Department of City and Regional Department, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China |
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Abstract This paper firstly reviewed the course of spatial evolution of Beijing's manufacturing. Then based on the First and Second Basic Unit Investigation, it divided the manufacturing into four industries. They were high-tech industry, equipment industry, heavy industry and urban industry. In the same time, this paper divided Beijing into four rings. They are middle area, near suburb, outside skirt of the metropolis and far suburb. Then the paper quantitatively analyzed the evolution feature of Beijing's manufacturing during the period from 1996 to 2001. The results included:1) The importance of manufacturing in middle area descended markedly. In near suburb, it dropped a little. In the outside skirt of the metropolis, it increased markedly. In far suburb, it developed slowly. 2)The suburbanization of manufacturing is prominent in this five years in Beijing. 3)The manufacturing in the south, east and northwest part of the metropolis developed faster than other regions. 4) The development zones, instead of traditional manufacturing districts, have been the most important carriers of Beijing's manufacturing.
Then this paper analyzed the dynamical mechanism of spatial evolution of Beijing's manufacturing. They included:1) Economy Globalization and New Technology Revolution were the outer powers, which produced new factors in Beijing's manufacturing, and most of these new factors were led by market economy when they chose location and were different from the traditional manufacturing enterprises. 2) System transition and fast development of Beijing were the inner impetus, which made the manufacturing corporations be glad to choose their location in suburb or move to suburb. 3) The development of development zones was the derive momentum. With preferential policies, excellent infrastructure, all right governance services and prospecting developmental atmosphere, Beijing's development zones not only promoted the evolution of manufacturing, but would also lead the spatial evolution of Beijing's manufacturing in future.
At last, it puts forward some advice to optimize the spatial structure of Beijing manufacturing. 1) In future, the spatial layout of Beijing's manufacturing should conglomerate in the east suburb and south suburb of Beijing. 2) We should promote the development of industry clusters based on the development zones. At the same time, it pointed that Beijing's manufacturing were still centralized in middle area and disorder in suburb to some extent, so we should keep on settling these problems in future.
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Received: 12 September 2005
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2006, Vol. 21 
