With the transformation of China’s industry and demographic structure,urban shrinkage,especially the resource-based cities due to their single industrial structure,tend to emerge gradually.Using empirical and quantit...With the transformation of China’s industry and demographic structure,urban shrinkage,especially the resource-based cities due to their single industrial structure,tend to emerge gradually.Using empirical and quantitative methods,this paper explores the evolution mechanism of urban shrinkage in Hegang,a resource-based city in China.Our findings suggest that there are many correlations or cyclic relationships among variables,which provide an empirical confirmation for the complexity of urban shrinkage process.The result shows there is a time delay of about four to five years between the mining industry and the changes of demographic profile,economic performance and built environment variables.The development of Hegang has formed a path dependence on resource-based industries.Furthermore,the time lags between demographic profile and economic performance variables are not obvious,and the real estate market has a certain sensitivity to perceive population loss and economic change.Besides,market led public service facilities are more sensitive to the changes of population outflow and economic recession than government led public service facilities.The study findings could offer insights for other resource-based cities in developing countries to employ on the economic development policies issues.展开更多
We develop a statistical framework to use the data of night-time-lights(DN)from satellite to augment official GDP measures,and a non-linear substitution relationship between DN and GDP is given.In this paper,we take a...We develop a statistical framework to use the data of night-time-lights(DN)from satellite to augment official GDP measures,and a non-linear substitution relationship between DN and GDP is given.In this paper,we take advantage of DN instead of GDP to measure the imbalance of regional development(IRD)in China by using the method of bi-dimensional decomposition under the population-weighted coefficient of variation.The method enables us to analyze the contributions of DN components to within-region and between-regions inequality under the framework which has been proposed,we can get the conclusion that the imbalance between-regions rather than within-region is the main reason for the influence of IRD for the whole country in China.展开更多
基金Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42171216,71703001,41671161)the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation(No.171077)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Capital University of Economics and Business(No.QNTD202009)。
文摘With the transformation of China’s industry and demographic structure,urban shrinkage,especially the resource-based cities due to their single industrial structure,tend to emerge gradually.Using empirical and quantitative methods,this paper explores the evolution mechanism of urban shrinkage in Hegang,a resource-based city in China.Our findings suggest that there are many correlations or cyclic relationships among variables,which provide an empirical confirmation for the complexity of urban shrinkage process.The result shows there is a time delay of about four to five years between the mining industry and the changes of demographic profile,economic performance and built environment variables.The development of Hegang has formed a path dependence on resource-based industries.Furthermore,the time lags between demographic profile and economic performance variables are not obvious,and the real estate market has a certain sensitivity to perceive population loss and economic change.Besides,market led public service facilities are more sensitive to the changes of population outflow and economic recession than government led public service facilities.The study findings could offer insights for other resource-based cities in developing countries to employ on the economic development policies issues.
基金National Social Science Foundation of China(20BTJ027)。
文摘We develop a statistical framework to use the data of night-time-lights(DN)from satellite to augment official GDP measures,and a non-linear substitution relationship between DN and GDP is given.In this paper,we take advantage of DN instead of GDP to measure the imbalance of regional development(IRD)in China by using the method of bi-dimensional decomposition under the population-weighted coefficient of variation.The method enables us to analyze the contributions of DN components to within-region and between-regions inequality under the framework which has been proposed,we can get the conclusion that the imbalance between-regions rather than within-region is the main reason for the influence of IRD for the whole country in China.
