中国主要城市关联网络研究

RESEARCH ON THE INTERLOCKING NETWORK OF MAJOR CITIES IN CHINA

从全行业的资本支配视角,采用企业关联网络的总部—分支法,识别和解析中国主要城市关联网络的基本特征,包括层级、格局、方向和腹地维度。验证了城市关联网络是城市体系研究的重要方法,而企业关联网络则是城市关联网络的有效表征。城市体系研究不仅要关注地理上的邻近性,更要强调功能上的关联性;不仅要关注城市作为场所空间的邻近性,更要强调城市在流通空间中的关联性。城市关联网络的本质是城市之间的经济联系,而企业是城市关联网络的"作用者",众多企业的区位策略界定了城市之间的关联网络。

This paper identifies and analyzes the interlocking network of major cities in China, including dimensions of hierarchy, configuration, directionality and hinterland. From the perspective of capital control in all industrial sectors, the research uses the approach of interlocking network in terms of headquarter-subsidiary linkage of corporate organization. It has verified the importance of urban network in urban system analysis and interlocking network of corporate organization as an effective measure of urban network. Urban system analysis should take into consideration not only the geographical proximity between cities as space of places but also the functional connectivity among cities in space of flows. The primary dimension of urban network is economic connectivity among cities and firms are the agents that interlock cities into network through their location strategies.