The advancement of the intelligent manufacturing industry(IMI)represents the future direction for the world's manufactur-ing sector,offering a promising avenue to bolster national competitiveness and enhance indus...The advancement of the intelligent manufacturing industry(IMI)represents the future direction for the world's manufactur-ing sector,offering a promising avenue to bolster national competitiveness and enhance industrial manufacturing efficiency.In this study,we took the industrial robot industry(IRI)as a case study to elucidate the spatial distribution and interconnections of IMI from a geographical perspective,and the modified diamond model(DM)was used to analyze the influencing factors.Results show that:1)the spatial pattern of IRI with various investment attributes in different industrial chain links is generally similar,centered in the southeast.Key investment areas are in the east and south.The spatial distribution of China's IRI covers a multitude of provinces and obtains differ-ent scales of investment in different countries(regions).2)The spatial correlation between foreign investors and China's provincial-level administrative regions(PARs)forms a network,and the network of foreign-invested enterprises is more stable.Different countries(regions)have distinct location preferences in China,with significant spatial differences in correlation degrees.3)Overall,the interac-tion of these factors shapes the location decisions and correlation patterns of industrial robot enterprises.This study not only contributes to our theoretical knowledge of the industrial spatial structure and industrial economy but also offers valuable references and sugges-tions for national IMI planning and relevant industry investors.展开更多
基金Under the auspices of the Natural Science Foundation Project of Heilongjiang Province(No.LH2019D009)。
文摘The advancement of the intelligent manufacturing industry(IMI)represents the future direction for the world's manufactur-ing sector,offering a promising avenue to bolster national competitiveness and enhance industrial manufacturing efficiency.In this study,we took the industrial robot industry(IRI)as a case study to elucidate the spatial distribution and interconnections of IMI from a geographical perspective,and the modified diamond model(DM)was used to analyze the influencing factors.Results show that:1)the spatial pattern of IRI with various investment attributes in different industrial chain links is generally similar,centered in the southeast.Key investment areas are in the east and south.The spatial distribution of China's IRI covers a multitude of provinces and obtains differ-ent scales of investment in different countries(regions).2)The spatial correlation between foreign investors and China's provincial-level administrative regions(PARs)forms a network,and the network of foreign-invested enterprises is more stable.Different countries(regions)have distinct location preferences in China,with significant spatial differences in correlation degrees.3)Overall,the interac-tion of these factors shapes the location decisions and correlation patterns of industrial robot enterprises.This study not only contributes to our theoretical knowledge of the industrial spatial structure and industrial economy but also offers valuable references and sugges-tions for national IMI planning and relevant industry investors.
