Recently, the collaborative paper Measurement of Agglomeration Degree of China's Manufacturing Industry and Export Agglomeration Degree: Based on the New Development Pattern by Professor Yu Miaojie, Fellow of the International Economic Association (IEA) and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Liaoning University, and Gu Yuan, a doctoral student from the School of International Economics and Politics of Liaoning University, has been officially accepted by International Economics and Trade Research.
Abstract
As a crucial form of spatial layout in the manufacturing industry, industrial agglomeration holds strategic value in optimizing factor allocation and promoting the linkage between domestic and international dual circulations under the new development pattern. This paper systematically sorts out the evolution of four generations of methodologies for measuring industrial agglomeration, conducts an in-depth comparison of their advantages, disadvantages, and improvement directions, and uses index methods to measure the agglomeration degree of China's manufacturing industry and export agglomeration degree respectively. Furthermore, it analyzes the impact of industrial agglomeration on economic performance and the decisive role of innovation in the agglomeration pattern. The study finds that: (1) The overall agglomeration degree of China's manufacturing industry presents a gradient distribution characteristic of decreasing from coastal areas to inland areas, and the industrial agglomeration effect in urban agglomeration areas is particularly significant; (2) Industrial agglomeration has an obvious positive driving effect on economic growth, but the intensity of this effect varies among regions; (3) Innovation is the core driving force for reshaping the industrial agglomeration pattern.
Journal Introduction
International Economics and Trade Research is an academic journal sponsored by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and edited and published by the Editorial Office of International Economics and Trade Research. It holds significant influence in the field of international trade, with regular topics mainly covering international trade theories and practices, among others.
Author Introductions
Yu Miaojie: Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Liaoning University. He is a Fellow of the International Economic Association (IEA) of the United Nations, a Distinguished Professor of the "Changjiang Scholars Program", a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, an Outstanding Young Scientist of Beijing, a Distinguished Boya Professor of Peking University, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, a special supervisor of the National Supervisory Commission, and an associate editor of the top international economics journal Economic Journal. He enjoys the special government allowance of the State Council. He is an economist with papers listed in the top 1% of highly cited papers in the global economics and management field, and is also the only Chinese scholar to have won the "Royal Economic Society Prize" so far.
Gu Yuan: A doctoral student at the School of International Economics and Politics, Liaoning University. His research focuses on international trade, industrial agglomeration, etc., and he has participated in the research of a number of consulting projects for government departments.
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