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| LOCATION OPPORTUNITY AND REGIONAL ECONOMICAL DEVELOPMENT——A Case Study Of Cities In the Yangtze River Delta |
| LI Zi-rong |
| College of Resource and Environment Science, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou 362000, China |
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Abstract Locational opportunity is all kinds of opportunities that can optimize the spatial relations and promote regional advantages into economic advantages. It is a powerful engine to activate regional advantages, and it has obvious differences in time and space. The paper adopts five indicators of 16 cities in the Yangtze River Delta in 2005, such as economic output, the non-agricultural population, the proportion of the secondary and tertiary industries, the total foreign investment, strengths of regional economy and so on, use a mathematical model to calculate size of 16 cities' comprehensive index. Accordingly, the paper divids 16 cities in the Yangtze River Delta into three levels, and analyzs Locationac opportunity of each level. Shanghai which is at the first level, has experienced the era of the Huangpu River to the age of Yangtze River and has stridder forward the era of regional maritime. If we have a good grasp of opportunities of the next cycle of regional integration into the world economy,we can achieve objectives to construct Shanghai into an in ternational economic, financial, and trade center.The key Location opportunity of the second level is to link up with Shanghai and use superior economic resources of Shanghai. Cities on the third level have small-scale economy, which can find opportunities from bottlenecks that affect space resources' act. Finally, the paper use the era of freeway and huge bridge as empirical research to further confirm that Locational opportunity plays an imporfant role in regional economic development, which is supplemented by detailed analysis of Huzhou, Zhoushan, and Nantong.
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Received: 18 December 2006
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2007, Vol. 22 
