Three Metropolitan Dense Areas: The Engine of China's Modernization

Author: Niu Fengrui
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book is an academic work that combines theoretical analysis with policy research. It examines the development positioning and strategies of the three major metropolitan agglomerations from a macro level of national strategy, while also proposing countermeasures and suggestions for several major practical issues of coordinated development within these agglomerations. The book is strategic, targeted, and actionable, with innovations in research methods, data analysis, and research perspectives. It holds certain academic value.
First, it employs new methods. For example, Chapter 3 uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to conduct efficiency analysis of the three major metropolitan agglomerations; Chapter 5 employs factor analysis to quantitatively assess the distribution of advantageous development spaces in the three major metropolitan agglomerations.
Second, its new data. For instance, Chapter 4 collects and analyzes land use data for Beijing and Shanghai, thereby evaluating land use performance; Chapter 6s and analyzes population census data for the three major metropolitan agglomerations, thereby exploring population change patterns in urban agglomerations.
Third, it adopts new perspectives. For example, Chapter 7 takes the spatial flow of migrant workers as an observation perspective to comparatively analyze cultural differences among the three major metropolitan agglomerations.
Fourth, it offers new insights into the development patterns of urban agglomerations. For example, Chapter proposes the phased development patterns of urban agglomerations such as "strong core," "spillover," "networking," "integration," and "coupling"; the national economic systems of the three major metropolitan agglomerations exhibit a high degree of relative independence; the core issue of urban agglomerations is intercity relations; the homogenization of intercity industries should not be the focus of government attention, but rather the space where market forces play a role. Chapter 6 proposes that population growth follows a wave-like progression pattern, and population distribution changes not only follow a concentric diffusion pattern but also a hierarchical diffusion pattern and an axial diffusion pattern, representing the spatial superposition of three driving forces.
This book has distinctive features in the theory and methods of urban agglomeration research and can provide theoretical support for the healthy development of urban agglomerations in China. It holds practical significance for addressing the challenges faced by the three major metropolitan agglomerations and promoting their coordinated development.