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| AN ANALYSIS OF THE GLOBALIZATION IMMERSION TIME-SPACE PROCESS IN CHINESE CITIES AND ITS INFLUENCE FACTORS——A Case Study of the Eight Foreign-funded Retail Enterprises |
| ZHANG Xin1, WANG Mao-jun1, CHAI Qing1, SU Hai-wei2 |
1. Institute of Resource Environment & Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 10048, China;
2. China Academy of Urban Planning & Design, Beijing 10044, China |
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Abstract Foreign retailers have started to enter the Chinese mainland market for a long time, not only large cities, but also small cities, which have become the object of foreign retail competition. Therefore, this paper research Chinese cities' globalization time-space evolution process and the influence factors in the year of 1995-2004 and 2005-2010, base on the example of eight large-scale transnational retail enterprises. To analyze the reasons of the time-space evolution pattern of globalization, we introduce seven indicators, including population size, the level of economic development, administrative level, income level, development policy, urban location and the level of foreign exchange. By the research, the following conclusions can be drawn: First, the immersing process of globalization in Chinese cities appears an obvious spatial displacement discipline: One is the steady changes with the "coastal-inland" steps in immersing depth, and the other is the spatial evolution changed from "differentiation between east and west" to "differentiation between south and north "in immersing breadth.; Second, The immersion of the globalization in China followed certain evolving discipline of scale hierarchy, including population size, economic development level and administrative level; Third, by means of the regression, we found that the main factors contain population size, level of foreign communication have significant effect on the immersion of globalization; policy factors and urban location factors faded away gradually, and the influence of income level enhanced.
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Received: 26 October 2011
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2012, Vol. 27 
