中国经济核心区在哪里

Where is the Core Region of China?

经济核心区对一个国家的快速崛起和持续发展具有举足轻重的作用。本文旨在依据保罗·克鲁格曼的核心蛳边缘理论和美国经济核心区的特点,从国内市场的空间密集性角度确定中国经济核心区的城市构成和地理范围。文章首先阐述了国家层面经济核心区的思想和特征,并使用2006年中国286个城市的经济数据,分析并比较了以上海、北京、广州、武汉、重庆和西安6个制造业城市为中心的国内市场的空间格局,发现上海、北京比广州、重庆和西安具有更大的市场邻近性优势,武汉比这5个城市具有邻近全国市场的优势,由此确定了中国经济核心区即以上海蛳北京蛳长沙为轴线、由沿海及中部地区的11个省区的32个制造业城市构成、制造业就业规模占全国的48%、面积为85万平方公里的三角形地带。最后建议在经济核心区内打造中国的制造业带、实施市场高度一体化政策,以充分利用国内市场优势提高中国经济的国际竞争力。

The core region always leads in the fast and steady development of a country. The purpose of this paper is to outline the core region of China from the perspective of spatial economic agglomeration by following both the Krugman＇s core-periphery model and the manufacturing belt of the United States. Using data for 286 Chinese cities, six leading manufacturing cities, including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Xi＇an, and Chongqing are compared with regard to their extent of spatial proximity to the nation markets of goods. It is found that Shanghai and Beijing are geographically closer to the national markets than Guangzhou, Xi＇an and Chongqing; and Wuhan has the advantage over other five cities in access to the entire national markets. Therefore, Shanghai, Beijing and Changsha, the later being close to and south of Wuhan, are used to define the core region, a triangle-shaped area of 850,000 square kilometers, where there are： 32 manufacturing cities with nearly half the country＇s manufacturing sector. Finally, this paper discusses the policy implications of the outlined core region.