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  • SUN Jiaze, HE Zilong, SUN Yuanchen
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.001

    This article embeds the input-output table between regions in China into the GTAPV11 database, constructs a global generalized equilibrium model embedded with 31 provinces in China, and simulates the impact of US tariffs on major economies and Chinese regions under the background of Trump 2.0. The research results indicate that: 1)The GDP of the United States has significantly declined, while China has demonstrated strong resilience to external shocks through its domestic circulation and diversified exports. Other economies such as the European Union, Japan, South Korea, and ASEAN have generally benefited from trade transfer effects. 2)The southeastern coastal regions (such as Guangdong and Shanghai) and inland areas with higher levels of vertical specialization have been greatly impacted, while other regions have not been significantly affected; 3) Although the imposition of tariffs by the United States has a protective effect on some key industries in the short term, it will have significant negative effects in the long run; Although China's key industries have been impacted in the short term, they are showing a long-term growth trend with the adjustment of the domestic supply chain. 4) Labor-intensive industries in various provinces have generally declined, but border provinces may benefit against the trend due to lower labor costs; Technology industries are more affected in export-oriented and processing trade provinces, while they show strong resilience in provinces with more complete industrial systems; The supply chain integration industry represented by the transportation equipment manufacturing industry has shown good shock resistance.

  • JI Zhixuan, PAN Jiahua, WU Qiyuan, SUN Congli
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 149-160. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.015

    This study focuses on a distributed renewable electricity production-storage-consumption integrated system, conceptualized as the Zero-Carbon Energy Prosumerage System (ZEPS), comprehensively evaluates its economic and carbon reduction benefits through theoretical modeling and cost-benefit analysis. Key findings include: 1)when the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of ZEPS is lower than the electricity purchase price, the utility level of the energy users improves; 2)for a typical Chinese household, a 10 kW photovoltaic system paired with a 10 kW·h storage system yields an average net present value (NPV) of approximately 37802 CNY over 25 years, with an internal rate of return (IRR) of 6.08%, an LCOE of 0.28 CNY/kW·h, and an average annual CO₂ emissions reduction of 6.13 tons; 3)regional analysis reveals that, influenced by solar irradiation, electricity price levels, and regional electricity carbon emission factors, ZEPS exhibits higher economic and carbon reduction benefits in North and Northeast China (e.g. Shandong and Heilongjiang), while benefits are relatively lower in Southwest regions (e.g. Guizhou and Chongqing). Accordingly, it is recommended to leverage the dual economic and environmental value of ZEPS, promote pilot implementations in advantaged regions, and gradually expand deployment, thereby accelerating the release of diverse actors' transformation potential and enabling the zero-carbon transition through integrated system solution.

  • ZENG Deyuan, GUO Qingbin, PENG Yanqing
    Economic geograph. 2026, 46(1): 24-33. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2026.01.003

    County-level factor agglomeration-diffusion capacity is a key driver for advancing urban-rural integration development. Integrating the methods of real-coded accelerating genetic algorithm and projection pursuit clustering model (RAGA-PPC), kernel density estimation, and Markov chain, this study examines the spatial pattern and multidimensional dynamic evolution of factor agglomeration-diffusion capacity across 1735 county-level units in China in 2010-2022. The results show that: 1) County-level factor agglomeration-diffusion capacity shows the steady upward trend. There are significant gradient differences among eight comprehensive economic zones, the eastern coastal economic zone remains persistently at the forefront, whereas the northeastern economic zone exhibits relatively weak development. 2) Factor agglomeration-diffusion capacity displays a clear core-periphery configuration: hotspot areas are stably concentrated in the coastal economic zones and the economic zone of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, while coldspot areas are primarily located in the economic zone of middle reaches of the Yellow River and the greater southwestern economic zone, with their spatial extent gradually contracting. 3) The overall disparities of factor agglomeration-diffusion capacity continue to widen, with interregional differences constituting the dominant source, the disparity between the northeastern economic zone and other economic zones is more significant, while the internal disparity within the greater northwestern economic zone is the smallest. 4) Factor agglomeration-diffusion capacity exhibits strong state persistence, and there is a long-term spatial influence among adjacent counties. Over time, the phenomenon of low-low clustering gradually eases, and the upward mobility trend strengthens. High-level counties exert a pronounced siphoning effect on low-level counties, while generating spillover-driven diffusion effects for medium-level and other counties. These findings provide theoretical foundations and policy-relevant evidence for optimizing county-level factor allocation and promoting urban-rural integration development.

  • CHEN Yilang, GUO Yuanyuan, QIN Wu, WU Liang
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(11): 129-138. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.11.013

    Drawing on data from new energy vehicle enterprises in 282 prefecture-level cities in China from 2009 to 2022, this study systematically depicts the spatial evolutionary characteristics of the new energy vehicle industry. It does so by integrating the heterogeneous roles played by different segments of the industrial value chain in shaping industrial development, and by employing a spatial autoregressive model to identify the core determinants of industrial location choices. The findings are as follows: 1) At the national level, China's new energy vehicle industry exhibits a spatial distribution characterized by high concentration in the southeast and low concentration in the northwest. Although the overall industrial scale has expanded significantly over time, development gaps among cities remain persistent. 2) From the perspective of different segments of the industrial chain, the spatial distribution of China's new energy vehicle industry demonstrates notable concentration and regional specificity. 3) During the study period, the agglomeration of China's new energy vehicle industry shows significant spatial dependence. Changes in spatial distribution result from the combined effects of multiple factors, including the locational environment, factor environment, market environment, institutional environment, and technological environment. By uncovering the evolutionary patterns of the new energy vehicle industry's spatial structure, this study provides a theoretical foundation and practical insights for consolidating and expanding China's competitive advantages in the new energy vehicle sector.

  • FAN Qingyu, XU Dong, CAO Chenjie, ZHANG Jinhe
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(8): 230-238. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.08.023

    With the help of Internet multi-source data, 30 internet-famous tourism destinations such as Ganzi, Zibo and Harbin were selected as the research objects. The characteristics and laws of the evolution of their lifecycle were evaluated, and a systematic regulation strategy influencing factors was explored based on this for the internet-famous tourism destinations to go from "explosive popularity" to "long-lasting popularity". The results showed that there are obvious hierarchical differences in the popularity of China's internet-famous tourism destinations, with obvious head effects and seasonality, and the overall spatial distribution pattern is high in the southeast and low in the northwest. The lifecycle of internet-famous tourism destinations can be divided into five types: stable, explosive, valley, peak and special, and there are obvious differences in the lifecycle evolution characteristics of different types of internet-famous tourism destinations. Four systematic regulation strategies were proposed, namely, "establishing service-oriented management thinking, creating local cultural and tourism IPs, innovating multi-media image dissemination, and strengthening digital city construction", with a view to providing decision-making references for internet-famous tourism destinations to avoid entering a recession or falling off the cliff, and to realize a healthy and sustainable development.

  • LIU Qingfang, LI Mengqi, SONG Jinping, MIAO Lianjun
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 32-43. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.004

    The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region with many characteristics such as poor environment, fragile ecology and lagging development is a relatively special region in China in terms of ecological environment and socio-economic development. Based on the measurement of the development index of population, social economy and resource environment in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region by adopting the entropy method, this study comprehensively employs the coupling coordination model, Kernel density estimation, Dagum Gini coefficient and PVAR model to explore the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of the coupling coordination relationship of the "population-social economy-resource and environment" complex system in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region and the interactive response relationship among subsystems. The results show that: 1) During the study period, the overall population and social economy evaluation index of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region showed an upward trend, while the evaluation index of resources and environment remained stable, and the population, social economy as well as resources and environment of most cities were in the middle and low level. 2) The coupling and mutual feedback effect of the composite system regarding "population-social economy-resource and environment" in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region had become stronger; the cities with a higher degree of coupling coordination were mainly located in the eastern and southern regions, which were relatively low-lying and rich in water resources. 3) The social economy in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region had a positive impact on the population. The mutual effects between the social economy and the resource environment are initially positive, but they will gradually weaken until they turn negative.

  • SU Lujun, YANG Yong
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 218-228. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.022

    Exploring the integrated development of culture, technology and tourism is a significant contemporary topic in cultural and tourism studies within the context of Chinese path to modernization. This paper defines the concept of the integration of culture, technology and tourism, proposing that their integration exhibits triple ternary relationships. It dynamically evolves through a cyclical feedback mechanism of "intelligent digital technology embedding—industrial ecosystem reconstruction—multi-dimensional integration and symbiosis". The integrated development promotes economic growth, constructs spiritual homelands, serves better life, showcases China's image, and enhances cross-civilization mutual learning. Building on this foundation, the study constructs a discourse system for the integrated development of culture, technology and tourism, characterized by the key concept of a "digital-intelligent cultural tourism symbiosis", new categories such as "new quality productive forces for cultural tourism" and "digital cultural tourism" and the expression framework of "audiovisual symbolization, flexible narrative strategies, audience-centered perspectives, and segmented storytelling". Finally, this paper proposes a "policy-industry-resource-ecosystem" realization pathway to facilitate high-quality development of culture, technology and tourism integration.

  • SONG Weixuan, SONG Zhengna, WANG Fuping, HE Qiong, LIU Chunhui
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(10): 58-69. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.10.007

    Intra-urban residential mobility represents a common and complex socio-spatial phenomenon, marked by the relocation of individuals or families within the same city, essentially constituting a re-selection of housing. Notably, education-led residential mobility is increasingly becoming one of the dominant modes of family migration within large cities. This study integrates Pierre Bourdieu's theory of fields into the analytical framework for examining education-led residential mobility. Utilizing data from 5,000 relocation questionnaires in Nanjing, it systematically explores the spatio-temporal characteristics, underlying mechanisms, and social effects of education-led residential mobility. The findings reveal: 1) Education-driven relocation forms a relatively independent and multi-agent social field characterized by competitiveness and capital transformation driven by capital (instrumental) and habitual (logical) practices; 2) Families involved in education-led residential mobility generally possess higher socio-economic attributes and engage in competition for educational resources through their capital's scale and structure, with economic capital being the primary driving factor, while class and cultural habits significantly contribute to their decisions; 3) This form of mobility highlights the supply-demand contradiction in quality compulsory education, leading to issues such as the capitalization of educational resources and gentrification of school districts, exacerbating resource allocation imbalances and social spatial segregation. The disparity in educational quality within cities is both a cause and a consequence of education-led residential mobility. Analyzing the field of education-led residential mobility is crucial for a systematic understanding of the deep-seated social mechanisms behind educational differentiation and mobility, providing theoretical support and practical guidance for government efforts aimed at achieving educational equity through optimizing field rules and instituting pathways for balanced inter-school development.

  • LI Xiaoling, TIAN Heng, FU Lingjing, DU Shangyu
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 11-20. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.002

    Peripheral regions represent both the extremities of geographical space and the borderland between national systems and governance. Affected by the "core-periphery" of regional development, Northeast China and Russia Far East have experienced peripheralization phenomena such as population decline and lagging economic development in their respective national spatial development. As a result, cross-border economic cooperation between the two regions has become increasingly important. This article takes Heilongjiang Province's investment in the Russian Far East as an example to explore the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and influencing factors of overseas investment in peripheral regions. The results show that: 1) From 2005 to 2021, the investment flow of Heilongjiang Province to Russia fluctuated significantly, and the proportion of investment in Russia to foreign investment varied greatly from year to year. The majority of investors were private enterprises, and greenfield investment was the predominant mode; 2) The cooperative parks invested by Heilongjiang Province in the Russian Far East are mainly concentrated in several Russian oblasts and regions adjacent to China, with industries mainly focused on processing and manufacturing, resource development, and agricultural production. Large scale investment projects are mostly located in the border areas between China and Russia, with a small amount extending to the peripheral areas of the Far East, covering areas such as oil, mineral development, and infrastructure construction; 3) In terms of investment timing, there were relatively few investments from 2002 to 2005, and the funds mainly came from Mudanjiang City; The number of investments increased significantly from 2006 to 2011, and the investment entities gradually expanded from border cities to the hinterland of Heilongjiang Province; The investment heat continued from 2012 to 2016, with the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Amur Oblast becoming emerging regions of concern for investors; The number of parks and projects has decreased from 2017 to 2021, but peripheral areas such as Sakha Republic and Sakhalin Oblast have begun to receive investment; 4)The investment spatial pattern of Heilongjiang Province in the Russian Far East is mainly influenced by factors such as geopolitical relations, policy systems, cross-border social capital, and spatial infrastructure, which interweave and affect its evolution process. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of investment cooperation in Sino-Russian border areas and provides both theoretical insights and empirical evidence for reseach on overseas investment in peripheral regions.

  • PENG Peng, FENG Yuming, HUANG Junlin, GAO Xiaotong, XU Leining
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(11): 149-159. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.11.015

    Electric vehicle charging stations play an important role in China's new infrastructure strategy. The article considered the walking convenience of drivers and passengers in the process of charging electric vehicles and obtaining other services, used the point of interest (POI) data obtained from AutoNavi open platform and road-net data based on Open Street Map (OSM), and adopted the method of exploratory spatial data analysis, modified Gaussian two-step floating catchment area based on the Gaussian distance decay function and blank areas to calculate the supply pattern and spatial adaptability of charging facilities within the Third Ring Road of Changsha. The results show that: 1) The spatial distribution of charging stations shows a T-shaped agglomeration tendency in the whole region, the density of stations decreases from the central urban to the suburban area, which is consistent with the spatial distribution of road network and public facilities; 2) In general, the spatial adaptability level between charging stations and all kinds of public facilities is not high, and there is a great difference in the adaptability of charging stations and public facilities in different urban functional areas; 3) The dominant blind areas are distributed in the urban fringe, including northeast, southeast and near Gushan Park, the recessive blind areas are mainly concentrated in the central urban areas, which are important target regions for further optimizing the layout of public charging stations.

  • SHENG Yanwen, SONG Jinping, TAN Juntao, ZHAO Jinli
    Economic geograph. 2026, 46(1): 76-85. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2026.01.008

    This paper identifies the concept of regional innovation resilience, employs a core variable method to measure urban innovation resilience in China from 2003 to 2019 in terms of resistance and recoverability, and uses the methods of exploratory spatial-temporal data analysis and spatial econometric model to explore the spatio-temporal interactions characteristics and influencing factors of urban innovation resilience. The results show that: 1) The overall level of urban innovation resilience in China is low with significant fluctuations. Spatially, low-resilience cities are spreading from the northwestern and southwestern regions toward the northeastern region, while medium-resilience cities are diffusing from the eastern and southern coastal areas toward the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. 2) In the process of urban innovation resilience, there is a negative correlation between resistance and recoverability. The relationship of innovation resilience between neighboring cities generally shifts from competition to collaborative development, but the spatial interactions between low resilience cities exhibit the characteristics of inertia and path dependence. 3) There are positive spatial spillover effects and negative temporal lag effects. government R&D investment and collaborative innovation exert negative and positive indirect effects on urban innovation resilience, respectively. Agglomeration effects and foreign investment have negative and positive spillover effects. The industrial structure has positive direct and spillover effects, while the level of financial development has a significant inhibitory effect on the innovation resilience of both local and neighboring cities.

  • SHU Xiaolin, CHEN Yang, WANG Meiling, WU Zhaodong, SHAN Shuxing, LIU Dongqiang
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 249-259. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.025

    The sustainability of rural sports-themed Internet-famous tourism destinations has become a major issue in both sports and tourism. Taking the "Village Super League" in Guizhou as a case study, this paper explores the long-term popularity mechanism of the "Village Super League" based on the modified diamond model theoretical framework, and conducts an empirical analysis using the methods of structural equation modeling (SEM) and importance-performance analysis (IPA). The findings reveal that: 1) The overall sustainability level of "Village Super League" in Guizhou is relatively high. Scores of three indexes are prominently high, which are the active public participation, the potential for continued popularity, and the organizing committee's capacity for sustained operations. 2) The government, production factors, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and strategy are all core factors in the modified diamond model. These factors interact positively with each other and are significantly related to the sustainability of the "Village Super League", jointly forming a dynamic mechanism for the long-term popularity of the "Village Super League" in Guizhou. 3) The sustainable development advantages of the "Village Super League" in Guizhou are concentrated in 14 factors such as live atmosphere, local villagers' participation, and government support. Six factors requiring urgent improvement include sufficient volunteers, local transportation convenience, tourists' access to public tourism information, local accommodation experience, the completeness and adequacy of local public facilities, and unified management by the organizing committee. Six factors that need to be gradually promoted for the sustainability of the "Village Super League" include "the network traffic and popularity brought by celebrity participation, local cultural tourism products, local tourism specialty goods, and competition venue conditions". The participation of "various food teams" among people from all walks of life in the maintenance area has potential value. Finally, it provides corresponding policy recommendations.

  • FAN Jie, LI Gan
    Economic geograph. 2026, 46(1): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2026.01.001

    The issue of "regional development" has been a core theme throughout national development planning and economic geography study. Currently, China has established a "3+N" regional strategic framework, which consists of three core strategies—the coordinated regional development strategy, major regional strategies, and the major function zoning strategy—alongside "N" additional regional development strategies such as the new urbanization strategy. This paper reviews the formation and evolution of China's regional strategic framework, analyzes the internal mechanisms of regional strategy superposition from an economic geography perspective, and explores pathways to maximize its effects. This study suggests that the regional economic system shaped by superposing strategies exhibits five key characteristics: regional differentiation, interconnectedness, scale nesting, functional transmission, and comprehensive integration. The economic geographic mechanism through which superposing regional strategies regulate and optimize the regional economic system lies in: guiding the rational allocation of production factors based on comparative advantages, leveraging positive external spillover effects through inter-system linkages, achieving effective transmission of strategic functions across different scales by coupling regional strategy scales with functional scales, and generating emergent effects through strategic synergy. Together, these factors amplify the overall impact of superposing regional strategies. This study proposes that maximizing the effects of superposing strategies requires enhancing strategic synergy during regional strategy upgrades, leveraging the overarching and foundational role of major functional areas, systematically optimizing the Regional Coordinated Development Strategy and Regional Major Strategy, and exploring comprehensive functional zones and new territorial spatial systems. This research aims to provide theoretical foundations and decision-making references for formulating the "15th Five-Year Plan" and optimizing regional economic layouts while improving spatial governance efficiency during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

  • ZONG Huiming, WANG Chuwen, ZHANG Dapeng, ZHANG Xue
    Economic geograph. 2026, 46(1): 67-75. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2026.01.007

    The urban network along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (NILSTC) is undergoing continuous development, and its spatiotemporal evolutionary patterns remain under exploration. This study takes the urban network in the NILSTC region as the research object and constructs a urban association network from 2003 to 2023 based on the headquarters-branch data of listed companies. It systematically explores the evolutionary patterns of network structures and the functional allocation dynamics among nodes. It's found that: 1)The network has transitioned from a dispersed network system to a strongly interactive complex network system. 2) The hierarchical structure of the network is constantly being refined, evolving from a "dual-core-driven" model to a "multi-core-driven" model. It has initially formed a hub-and-spoke network dominated by provincial capital city linkages, with a prominent core-periphery structure and path-dependent characteristics. 3) Most cities exhibit consistency between their importance and control capacity, provincial capitals have maintained long-term dominance in core, high-control positions, while strategic hub cities and emerging industry-oriented cities have shown significant functional upgrades. 4) The spatial form of network community have evolved from extreme fragmentation to a segmented structure of distinct territorial blocks, with reinforced spatial integration and progressively deepening land-sea connectivity. Based on the research conclusions, this study proposes pathways to optimize the urban network along the NILSTC, providing theoretical underpinnings and practical guidance for high-quality development and coordinated regional governance.

  • LU Lin, HUA Yulian, CHEN Jieqi, REN Yisheng, CUI Jing, JIANG Weifeng, PENG Jiaming
    Economic geograph. 2026, 46(1): 234-246. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2026.01.023

    The high-quality development of the tourism industry is an essential aspect of overall high-quality development. The development of new quality productive forces is an intrinsic requirement and a key focus for promoting high-quality tourism development. Exploring how new quality productive forces empower the high-quality development of tourism is a significant practical necessity and an important scientific proposition in the context of China's modernization. Therefore, this study systematically reviews relevant research progress and constructs a conceptual matrix model for empowering high-quality tourism development based on the theory of new quality productive forces and systems thinking paradigms. It also proposes important topics that future research should urgently address and explore. The findings reveal that: 1) The conceptual matrix model serves as a tool to organize and analyze the complex relationships between concepts, providing a systematic, logical, and intuitive theoretical framework to clarify the intrinsic link between new quality productive forces and high-quality tourism development. 2) By using the core concepts of new quality productive forces (technological breakthroughs, factor allocation, industry upgrading) as rows and the classic "six elements" of tourism (food, accommodation, transportation, attraction, shopping, and entertainment) as columns, a 3 multiplied by 6 conceptual matrix model is established to offer theoretical and practical references for exploring a uniquely Chinese path of tourism development. 3) Future research should be grounded in the context of the deep integration of culture and tourism, focusing on the synergy of elements, innovative subjects, and realization pathways that empower the high-quality development of tourism through new quality productive forces. This focus aims to contribute to achieving high-quality development in the tourism industry and advancing China’s modernization.

  • SUN Yanming, LIU Hong
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(11): 23-35. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.11.003

    This paper focuses on the synergistic relationship between green development and common prosperity, based on the key time points in the evolution of the national policies and policy follow-up in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), construct evaluation system with reference to authoritative policy documents, use entropy-weighted TOPSIS method to measure the level of green development and common prosperity of 41 cities in the YRD from 2012 to 2021, create Green-Prosperity Synergistic Index (GPI) to quantify the synergistic state of the two; use Global Moran's Index and Hot Spot Analysis to portray the spatio-temporal synergistic evolution features, and use Threshold Regression Model to explore the driving factors and influencing mechanisms. The study finds that: 1) in time sequence, green development level and common prosperity level fluctuate and rise, the latter grows significantly, and regional differences are gradually narrowed; 2) spatially, the green development level in northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui, as well as in Ningbo and Jiaxing, is low initially, but the overall level is better at the later stage; the common prosperity level shows the pattern of "strong in the east and weak in the west", and the economically developed regions and their neighboring areas have obvious advantages; 3) the spatial and temporal synergistic evolution of green development and common prosperity shows significant spatial clustering characteristics, with hotspots concentrating in cities with outstanding ecological advantages but weak economic foundations, such as Huangshan, Chizhou, Xuancheng, etc., and coldspots concentrating in cities with high degrees of interference in economic activities, such as Ningbo, Jiaxing, etc.; 4) the economic growth at a low level of technology and the industrial structure of high-intensity government intervention will hinder the synergistic advancement, with a particularly significant impact on non-common prosperity demonstration and central areas.

  • WANG Hui, LIU Chunhui
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(11): 234-244. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.11.023

    Research on gentrification in China lacks an understanding of the inherent laws of gentrification phenomena and an objective value judgment of gentrification effects. Focusing on cultural tourism resource-enabled gentrification, this study analyzes the types, mechanisms, and effects observed in the renewal and transformation of Nanjing's "Southern Old City". Specifically, first, cultural tourism gentrification within the "Southern Old City" can be categorized into three types: historical block reproduction, poetic habitat reinvention, and functional superimposition upgrading. Second, the increase in "potential land rent" and the "monopoly rent gap" generated by high-quality, scarce cultural tourism resources constitute the core driving force of cultural tourism resource-enabled gentrification. The diverse paths and types of this gentrification are shaped by the different combinations and dynamic changes in power dynamics and interest relations among local governments, market forces, and social groups. Third, while gentrification facilitates the revival, reproduction, and diversified use of historical and cultural heritage, vigilance is required against issues such as excessive capitalization and commercialization. It is suggested that greater efforts should be devoted to enhancing the exploration, protection, and utilization of historical and cultural resources, avoid negative consequences such as "residential displacement" and social inequity during the process of gentrification, and guide cultural and tourism-driven gentrification to serve as an effective tool for promoting urban renewal and high-quality development.

  • ZHANG Ni, WU Xixi, ZHU Li
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(11): 262-272. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.11.026

    The "sheltered-type" landscape spaces in traditional villages refer to the spatial organizations designed primarily for self-concealment, risk avoidance, and threat prevention. The essence of this type of landscape is not merely a spatialized response to collective security needs, but also a cultural translation strategy for addressing existential anxiety. While the external manifestations of villages across different ethnic groups display heterogeneity, the underlying spatial schema structures exhibit commonalities. This study employs a spatial schema methodology, integrating perspectives from philosophy, design, and cultural psychology, to explore the common schema structure inherent in the landscape heritage of traditional villages. On one hand, the study constructs the generative mechanism of "sheltered-type" landscape spaces, which is shaped through the interplay between the logical schema of "community clustering", "harmony prioritization", "awareness of potential threats" and the context schema of "geographic diversity" and "richness of social interactions". This interplay gives rise to a "ring-like structure", unveiling the dynamic relationship between foundational cultural roots and diverse external manifestations. On the other hahnd, addressing the deficiencies in the conservation of traditional village landscapes, the study takes examples from Han, Tibetan, Tujia, Yao, Dong, and Dai ethnic groups to establish a "point-line-plane-volume" framework. It proposes preservation pathways characterized by "horizontal enclosure" and "vertical separation". By analyzing the spatialized representation of the multiethnic unity of the Chinese nation, the study benefits to enhance cultural subjectivity, strengthen ethnic identity, and provide theoretical reference for the indigenous preservation of this type of landscape heritage.

  • LUO Huping, LI Yating, ZHENG Peng, DENG Yaxuan, GU Rui
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(8): 92-101. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.08.010

    Based on the POI data of human settlement facilities in Yueyanglou District, Yueyang City, and 1,035 micro-survey data from 28 key communities under renovation, taking the American Customer Satisfaction Model as the theoretical basis, this study comprehensively applies the Structural Equation Model, Kernel Density Analysis, and Moran's I to explore the spatial characteristics and formation mechanism of the satisfaction with the renovation of the urban human settlement environment. The results show that: 1)Residents form their satisfaction with the renovation of the human settlement environment along the main path of "policy expectation→perceived quality→perceived value→satisfaction". 2)The distribution of "residents' satisfaction-facility density" presents spatial characteristics of "high-low" aggregation in the urban outskirts, "low-high" aggregation in the central urban area, and "low-low" aggregation in the industrial area. 3)The action paths show that the perceived quality of the support system and residential system in old residential areas, the humanistic system and development system in communities transformed from villages, the residential system and development system in shantytown areas, and the development system in commodity communities significantly and positively affects residents' perceived value. 4)For the high-expectation group, the marginal perceived quality brought by each additional unit of policy expectation gradually decreases, leading to a simultaneous decrease in perceived value and satisfaction with the renovation. The situation is the opposite for the low-expectation group.

  • YANG Bing, BAO Jigang
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 229-238. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.023

    In the pursuit of common prosperity, rural tourism has been entrusted with multiple missions, including activating resources, promoting industrial development, and enabling benefit-sharing. As a fundamental institutional arrangement, the structure of property rights plays a decisive role in resource allocation, equitable distribution, and governance capacity. This paper adopts a tripartite analytical framework of "State-Market-Community" to examine the structural dilemmas in the institutional practices of property rights over rural tourism attractions and how they constrain the pathways toward common prosperity. The study finds that: national policies, under multi-objective directives, suffer from a mismatch of governance tools, and the accumulation of project-based interventions exacerbates spatial inequality and ownership ambiguity; market mechanisms reconstruct governance structures and income distribution through property capitalization and contract-locking effects, further weakening community agency; and the originally embedded property regimes—anchored in local identity and organizational networks—are becoming destabilized due to factor outflows, organizational hollowing, and fractured benefit-sharing mechanisms. The paper advocates for an adaptive property rights regime based on "institutional embeddedness-collaborative governance-collective empowerment," aiming to enhance institutional legitimacy and co-benefit mechanisms, and to provide structural and practical pathways for achieving common prosperity through rural tourism.

  • ZHANG Yuangang, ZHU Xun
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(11): 245-252. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.11.024

    Against the backdrop of rural revitalization strategies, the return of residents to rural tourism destinations has emerged as a critical pathway to activate endogenous development dynamics in rural areas. This study constructs a four-dimensional theoretical framework of "connotation attributes—key issues—implementation logic—research framework" to reveal the mechanism through which returning residents promote comprehensive rural revitalization via the synergy of talent, technology, and capital. Findings indicate that returnees drive industrial integration, ecological value transformation, and cultural inheritance through the "human capital upgrading—spatial reproduction—governance modernization" transmission chain, yet challenges such as structural talent mismatch and fragmented policies persist. The proposed "element-fusion-transmission" analytical framework addresses gaps in existing research on dynamic mechanisms and multidimensional synergies, offering theoretical and practical insights for policymakers to optimize talent strategies and balance conservation-development goals. The innovation lies in systematically integrating industrial, ecological, and cultural dimensions, providing a novel perspective for resolving urban-rural resource disparities and achieving sustainable rural development.

  • ZENG Lin, PU Lili, WU Fei, CHEN Lin
    Economic geograph. 2026, 46(1): 46-55. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2026.01.005

    Regional factor market integration is a key driver for unleashing China's economic growth potential and is crucial for facilitating domestic circulation. Using the price method to measure inter-provincial market integration indices from 2010 to 2022, and based on the supply chain information disclosure data of A-share main board listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, this paper employs fixed effects models and Heckman two-stage models to empirically examine the impact of regional factor market integration on corporate supply chain information disclosure. The findings reveal that: 1) Regional factor market integration significantly promotes corporate supply chain information disclosure. For each unit increase in the market integration index, the number of suppliers and customers disclosed by enterprises increases by approximately 0.9, and the proportion of disclosed transaction amounts increases by about 0.03%. 2) Mechanism tests indicate that market integration operates through two primary channels: one is to reduce the demand uncertainty faced by firms and mitigate the "bullwhip effect" of supply chain; the other is to increase the customer concentration and strengthen major customers' demands for supply chain transparency. 3) Heterogeneity analysis shows that this promotion effect is more pronounced in state-owned enterprises, eastern regions, and areas with high local government intervention (facing greater economic growth pressure). These findings provide micro-level evidence for deepening of factor market reforms and the acceleration of building a unified national market.

  • LIU Hanbo, LIU Jianghao, LI Yuxing
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(8): 40-49. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.08.005

    Basic public services such as education, medical care, pension and infrastructure are the main components of residents' public consumption, and eliminating regional differences can not only narrow the regional differences in residents' public consumption levels, but also an important way to improve residents' consumption power.This paper constructs the evaluation index system of basic public service supply level and resident demand in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, takes the Yangtze River Economic Belt as a sample, comprehensively uses the combination weighting method and ESDR index method to measure the matching degree of supply and demand of basic public services in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2010 to 2022, and uses kernel density estimation, cold and hot spot clustering, geographic detector and other methods to explore the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and driving factors of the differences.The results show that: 1) During the study period, the demand index of basic public services in the Yangtze River Economic Belt remained relatively stable, and the gradient pattern of "upstream> middle > downstream" was spatially presented. The supply index showed a fluctuating upward trend, and the downstream was ahead of the upstream and midstream in space. 2) During the study period, the ESDR value of basic public service supply and demand matching was less than 0, but the index showed a fluctuating upward trend, and the supply surplus area was expanding significantly. The spatial relationship between supply and demand is dominated by LL-type spatial mismatch clusters, but the LH-type spatial mismatch area is increasing slightly. 3) The leading factors affecting the supply deficit area and the supply-demand balance area are topographic conditions, and the leading factors affecting the supply surplus area are fixed asset investment and government fiscal self-sufficiency rate. The explanatory power of the interaction between topographic relief and other factors in the supply deficit area and the supply-demand balance area is the highest, while the explanatory power of the interaction between the government fiscal self-sufficiency factor and other factors is the highest in the supply surplus area.The above conclusions prove that topographic conditions are an important factor leading to the regional differences in the matching level of supply and demand of basic public services in China, and the elimination of the matching differences between supply and demand of public services caused by topographic conditions is incorporated into the current transfer payment system, which can not only eliminate the difference in the supply capacity of basic public services, but also an important measure to boost residents' consumption and expand domestic demand.

  • LIU Qianqian, ZHANG Wenzhong, XU Ruiliang, ZHAO Jincai
    Economic geograph. 2026, 46(1): 247-255. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2026.01.024

    As a product of tourism development in the era of information and communication technology (ICT), investigating the matching relationship and spatial production mechanisms between virtual and physical spaces of internet-famous tourist spots can deepen the understanding of emerging consumption spaces in Chinese cities. From the perspective of virtual-physical spatial interaction, this paper adopts an empirical-structuralist mixed methodology and employs network text mining, kernel density estimation, and a coupling coordination model to analyze the spatial characteristics and matching mechanisms of virtual and real spaces in Nanjing. The findings reveal that: 1) The physical construction density of internet-famous tourist spots exhibits a pronounced monocentric pattern, whereas the density of virtual spatial perception displays a core-periphery expansion. Overall, the coupling between virtual and physical spaces shows a concentric layered structure, There is a notable mismatch between physical construction and virtual perception in certain central areas. 2) From a mechanistic perspective, spatial practice constitutes a production process dominated by capital, in which interest-based collaboration between platforms and scenic spots, together with users' transformation into tourists, serves as a key bridge linking virtual and real spaces. Spatial representations reflect a virtual-physical interaction embedded within power relations, manifested through strategic negotiations among platforms, scenic spots, governments, and tourists. Finally, representational space embodies a process of social evolution shaped by cultural contexts, characterized by the transformation of profit-oriented consumption culture, socialized experiential culture, and labeled popular culture.

  • ZENG Fusheng, CHEN Huiqing
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 200-209. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.020

    Based on the inter-provincial panel data of 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) in China from 2013 to 2022, this article empirically examines the impact of digital finance on the new quality productive forces of agriculture by using the double fixed effects model, threshold effect model and spatial Durbin model. The research results show that: 1) During the research period, the development level of agricultural new quality productive forces in China has rapidly improved, but the overall development is uneven, showing a distribution trend of "high in the east and low in the west", and the differences in the development level of new quality agricultural productive forces in various regions of China have become solidified. Digital finance can promote the improvement of new quality productive forces in agriculture, but its promoting effect shows regional heterogeneity. In terms of the effect, the regional ranking of the promotion effect of digital finance on the new quality productive forces of agriculture is as follows: central region > northeastern region > eastern region > Western region. The threshold effect indicates that the promoting effect of digital finance on the new quality productive forces of agriculture will show an accelerating downward trend as the level of urbanization increases. 2) The impact of digital finance on the new quality productive forces of agriculture has a spatial spillover effect, that is, digital finance significantly promotes the improvement of the new quality productive forces level of agriculture in this region and neighboring regions.

  • QI Libin, LIU Yingli, SU Ling
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(11): 80-88. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.11.008

    The optimal allocation of sports service facilities is an important support for implementing the "Healthy China" strategy and the equalization of public services. Based on the POI data of 31 prefecture-level cities in the Central Yangtze River Urban Agglomeration from 2014 to 2023, this study comprehensively employs kernel density estimation, spatial autocorrelation and optimal geographic detector methods to reveal the spatio-temporal differentiation characteristics and influencing factors of the configuration level of sports service facilities. The results show that: 1) The configuration level of sports service facilities in the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River has increased from 0.179 to 1.225, and the total number of facilities has jumped from 2693 to 18436, showing a continuous growth trend and forming a gradient pattern of "Greater Nanchang Metropolitan Area > Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Metropolitan Area > Wuhan Metropolitan Area". The nuclear density curve shifts to the right and the height of the main peak decreases, reflecting that the spatial distribution is gradually becoming more balanced. However, there is still trailing lag in peripheral cities such as Ji 'an and Tianmen. 2) The types of sports service facilities show a "pyramid-shaped" differentiation, with fitness centers and billiard halls having the highest density. The spatial distribution presents a "core-edge" pattern. The global Moran's I value ranges from -0.043 to -0.132, showing a significant spatial negative correlation. 3) Social and economic development factors have the strongest impact on the configuration level of sports service facilities, while traffic carrying capacity and environmental quality factors have relatively weak influences on it. Moreover, the level of urbanization and the accessibility of the road network have the strongest explanatory power. In the future, the configuration level of sports service facilities should be enhanced in a coordinated manner from multiple dimensions, including promoting social and economic development, optimizing urban spatial layout and transportation networks.

  • XU Jun, LI Congying, ZHANG Tao, OUYANG Ningxiang
    Economic geograph. 2026, 46(1): 98-107. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2026.01.010

    Optimizing the zonal development strategy of territorial space is crucial for sustaining the development of growth-oriented metropolitan areas. Selecting the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Metropolitan Area as a case study, this study establishes a comprehensive evaluation framework for economic-ecosystem resilience and their coupling coordination. By assessing ecological sources and ecological security patterns, it examines the adaptive interactions of territorial spatial functions from the multi dimension and proposes the optimization strategies for the zonal development in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Metropolitan Area. The results show that: 1) Economic resilience and ecological resilience both show a core-periphery divergence with north-south differentiation pattern, while the economic-ecosystem resilience shows a gradient feature which is higher in the north and east of metropolitan area, and lower in the south and west of metropolitan area. The economic-ecological coupling coordination degree (CCD) exhibits a reverse core-periphery pattern, with the central urban area having low coordination (CCD<0.5) and eastern regions like Liling and Liuyang achieving high coordination (CCD>0.68). The higher the economic development level, the more obvious the mutual feedback and constraint effects of economic-ecological coordinated development. 2) The ecological security pattern index in research area is primarily at medium to high level. The three-tier ecological network configuration of "expansion along the river, green heart as the core, outer forest as the buffer" further confirms the spatial distribution characteristics of ecological source areas being "dominated in the east and supported in the south", highlighting the significant advantages of the regional ecological background and serving as the key spatial foundation for the integrity of the regional ecosystem. 3) The territorial space of the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Metropolitan Area has been rezoned into nine functional types. The study analyzes the characteristics of each zone and defines the key future directions—eastward integration and westward coordinated development—as well as the optimization strategies for each.

  • ZHANG Haotian, LU Shengfeng
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 210-217. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.021

    In recent years, with the advances in new economic geography theory, the role of geographical distance between different economies has received increasing attention. This paper takes the reform of the relocation of prefecture-level city government offices in China between 2008 and 2023 as a policy shock, and constructs a difference-in-differences model from the perspective of geographical distance between upper and lower-level governments to evaluate the carbon reduction effects of government proximity. The empirical results show that: 1) Proximity to prefecture-level city governments significantly reduces carbon emissions at the county level, and this effect gradually strengthens and stabilizes over time. 2) Mechanism analysis indicates that the enhanced environmental regulation by prefecture-level city governments and improved industrial adjustment capacity at the county level, brought about by geographical proximity, are important reasons for the carbon reduction effect in neighboring counties. 3) Further analysis reveals that government proximity not only facilitates carbon reduction but also concurrently mitigates regional environmental pollutant emissions, achieving synergistic effects in pollution and carbon reduction. 4)Moreover, government relocation events demonstrate a positive impact on regional carbon mitigation, contributing to an overall decline in county-level carbon emissions.

  • XIE Zhuoting, XIN Na
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(8): 82-91. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.08.009

    The important strategic plan of the 20th Party Congress points out that high-quality development is the primary task, and vigorously promote the high-quality development of manufacturing industry to realize the modern industrial system. This paper constructs the evaluation system of high-quality development of manufacturing industry from six indicators, namely, economic efficiency, innovation strength, manufacturing efficiency, digital environment, low-carbon manufacturing, structural upgrading, and selects the data of China's Urban Statistical Yearbook from 2011 to 2020, and utilizes the spatial Durbin model to investigate the spatial effect of high-quality development of manufacturing industry driven by the digital economy. The study found that:1)the level of urban digital economy development has shown an upward trend year by year, but there are regional differences, with first-tier cities showing a stronger level of development;2)the level of high-quality development of the manufacturing industry in cities has basically shown an upward trend, and there are also regional differences between cities, but some cities are stronger than the first-tier cities in terms of the level of development;3)the development of the digital economy is favorable to promote the development of manufacturing industry of the local and surrounding cities High-quality development of the local and neighboring cities, and the digital economy on the local manufacturing industry to promote high-quality development is greater than the role of neighboring cities.4)there is heterogeneity in the spatial impact of the digital economy on the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry in cities in the East, Central and West, and in small, medium and large cities, due to differences in regions and city sizes, and the central cities and small cities do not have a significant impact on the promotion of neighboring cities. Implications of the study: nationwide digital economy construction and cross-regional digital economy cooperation should be comprehensively promoted to accelerate the effective integration of digital infrastructure, digital technology, digital elements and digital governance in the manufacturing sector, leading to the high-quality development of smart manufacturing.

  • ZHAO Zhihao, JIE Yangyang, LEI Ping, HE Dayi
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(8): 11-19. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.08.002

    The digital economy has emerged as a new driver of high-quality development. However, its heterogeneous development patterns may have conflicting effects on cross-regional labor migration, and the resulting spatial spillover effects may also vary widely. Using data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey, we examined the effects of the digital economy and its disaggregated development pathways of digital industrialization and industrial digitization on the employment agglomeration of migrants from 2011 to 2018. The study employed a two-way fixed effects model and spatial econometric method. The main conclusions are: 1) There is a clear labor agglomeration effect in the development of regional digital economies. 2) The development path of digital economy can be divided into digital industrialization and industrial digitization, which have contradictory effects on the employment agglomeration of migrants. Digital industrialization has a positive effect on employment agglomeration, while industrial digitization leads to de-agglomeration of migrant employment. The dynamic estimation confirms a continuous effect of this result on employment agglomeration. 3) The digital economy and its different development paths have shown significant spatial spillovers, resulting in a geographical "center-periphery" pattern.

  • DENG Qizhong, WANG Zhenyu
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(11): 223-233. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.11.022

    The article takes prefecture level cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2008 to 2021 as the research object, and uses methods such as super efficiency MinDS-GML model, kernel density estimation, standard deviation ellipse, exploratory spatiotemporal data analysis, and panel quantile regression to explore the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and influencing factors of green low-carbon transition in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. It’s found that: 1) The level of green low-carbon transition index in the Yangtze River Economic Belt has shown a fluctuating upward trend over time, accompanied by a multipolar differentiation phenomenon; the overall manifestation of green low-carbon transition index in the region is a spatial pattern of "high at both ends and low in the middle", presenting a clustering trend of "large areas, small scattered". 2) The local spatial structure of the green low-carbon transition index in the Yangtze River Economic Belt has a certain degree of robustness; during the process of spatiotemporal transition, there is relatively little transfer between different types of spatial correlations. The spatial correlation structure of the green low-carbon transition index is greatly influenced by its own factors, and there is a certain risk of falling into the dilemma of transition in low-value areas. 3) Government support, green innovation, human capital, environmental regulations, opening up, and industrial structure all have significant impacts on the green low-carbon transition, with green innovation having the strongest effect; the effects of various influencing factors vary at different quantiles.

  • OUYANG Ningxiang, DENG Yuetang, YIN Yong, SHE Zehua, LAI Xue, QU Weijun, XU Jun
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(8): 187-198. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.08.019

    The article focuses on 13 major grain producing areas in China as the research object, constructs an evaluation index system for the coupling and coordinated development of new quality productivity and farmland system resilience, and analyzes the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and key influencing factors of the coupling and coordinated development of new quality productivity and farmland system resilience from 2010 to 2023 based on entropy method, coupling coordination model, and grey correlation model. The results show: 1) The average level of new quality productivity in China's major grain producing areas shows a fluctuating upward trend, with a spatial multipolar convergence pattern of high in the north and south, low in the middle, and reduced differences between the east and west. 2) The resilience index of the average cultivated land system in China's major grain producing areas shows a relatively stable and continuous upward trend, spatially manifested as a composite trend of "north-south gradient difference" and "east-west migration zone". 3) The coupling coordination degree between new quality productivity and farmland system resilience in different major grain producing areas shows a fluctuating upward trend, and has steadily entered an evolutionary trend of "high-quality coordination", showing significant spatial differences. 4) The resistance and adaptability of the farmland system have a relatively high impact on the coupling coordination degree, while the impact on the restoration ability is relatively weak, but it still plays an important role in Jiangsu Province. The research conclusion can provide theoretical guidance and empirical reference for improving the level of new quality productivity and enhancing the resilience of arable land systems.

  • DING Ruxi, QIAO Yingying, MAO Zhonggen
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 44-54. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.005

    From the perspective of urban networks, this paper constructs a theoretical framework and measurement index system for the internal cohesion support and external driving force of growth poles, unified at a comprehensive level and influenced by the internal spatial organizational structure of the growth pole. The Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region is considered a key assessment object for China's major economic growth pole. Utilizing nationwide urban network data from 2000 to 2020 based on connections with China's top 1000 listed companies and 66,300 enterprises, the research quantitatively measures and comparatively analyzes its role, position, and evolution in the national urban network and the top ten growth poles. The results show that: 1) Under dual-core leadership, the breadth and depth of external connections, along with their radiating driving ability, continue to strengthen, gradually participating in shaping and expanding China's diamond-shaped multipolar network spatial development pattern. 2) Despite surpassing the Shandong Peninsula city cluster in comprehensive level ranking during the observation period and ranking fourth among the top ten growth poles nationwide, significant gaps persist in internal cohesion, external connectivity, and comprehensive levels compared to the existing three national-level growth poles. 3) Imbalances in internal spatial organizational structures, such as low network density, city polarization, and low poly-centrality, pose challenges to the development of small and medium-sized cities, limiting the further enhancement of comprehensive levels. In the future, concerted efforts should focus on optimizing structure, strengthening internal cohesion, and expanding external connections to effectively transform the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle into a growth pole with national influence and a new source of momentum.

  • LI Hongfei, CHANG Kai
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(10): 234-244. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.10.024

    Building a systematic and continuous heritage corridor is a key step in promoting the comprehensive protection and rational utilization of cultural heritage. Taking the Guanlong Ancient Trail linear cultural heritage as the research object, this study explores the characteristics of heritage nodes and network attributes through cognitive network structure analysis, and identifies potential heritage corridors using the minimum cumulative resistance model and circuit theory model in conjunction with heritage clusters as heritage sources. By integrating and optimizing potential corridors based on factors such as heritage centrality evaluation, actual transportation conditions, and corridor relative resistance, this study constructs the cultural heritage system of the Guanlong Ancient Trail. The results indicate that: 1) The heritage network of the ancient Guanlong Ancient Trail linear cultural heritage presents a spatial pattern of "multiple cores and clustered groups". 2) The application of the "kernel density estimation + block model" collaborative division of heritage source areas can effectively enhance the scientific nature of the division of heritage source areas. 3) The potential heritage corridors in the study area were manually corrected, and after optimization, a three-level corridor system of "core-main-secondary" was constructed. Based on this, the development and application strategies of the cultural heritage corridor system were proposed, with the aim of providing reference and inspiration for the overall protection and coordinated development of linear cultural heritage in the northwest region and even the whole country.

  • YAO Peng, HU Xiaoyu, SUN Jiuwen, GONG Weifeng
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(11): 202-212. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.11.020

    Strengthening water environment supervision measures is crucial for curbing water pollution, improving water ecological quality, and achieving sustainable development. This paper focuses on the monitoring effectiveness of national surface water quality automatic monitoring stations and examines their role in promoting the exit of polluting enterprises from river basins. The research finds that national-controlled water stations only significantly promote the exit of water pollution-intensive enterprises in the upstream, while the exit effect is not significant in the downstream due to regulatory blind spots, presenting a structural exit feature. Mechanism analysis indicates that upstream enterprises accelerate their exit due to limited innovation and rising costs, while downstream enterprises have a stronger tendency to survive due to lenient supervision. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the effect of discontinuous supervision varies due to differences in regional economic development levels and fiscal pressures. The study reveals the spatial limitations of the national-controlled water station monitoring system and its constraints on the efficiency of river basin governance, providing theoretical basis and policy recommendations for optimizing the layout of water quality monitoring networks and promoting coordinated governance between upstream and downstream areas.

  • LIU Yang, WANG Kun, ZHAO Yantong
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(11): 12-22. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.11.002

    Taking the perspective of coordinated development, this study examines the impact of information flow on the synergy of economic development and ecological environment in the Yellow River Basin, using data of 58 prefecture-level cities in the basin from 2012 to 2021. The results show that the synergy level of economic development and ecological environment in the Yellow River basin increased from 0.503 in 2012 to 0.579 in 2021, with the spatial distribution characteristics of "high in the middle and lower reaches, and low in the upper reaches". The information flow and technology transfer network in the Yellow River Basin both presents a "polycentric" spatial pattern. For every unit increase in information flow, the synergy between economic development and ecological environment in the Yellow River Basin increased by 0.102 units. The effect of information flow exhibits regional heterogeneity, with a more pronounced impact on upstream regions and non-provincial capital areas. Mechanism analysis indicates that information flow promotes technology transfer among cities in the basin, thereby influencing the level of coordinated development between the economy and environment. Therefore, efforts should be made to accelerate the development of the information industry, promote coordinated and interconnected development among different regions in the Yellow River Basin, and utilize information flow to empower the real economy, achieving the coordinated development of the economy and ecology.

  • QIN Lingui, LIU Songqi, SHEN Tiyan, MA Nan
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 110-118. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.011

    The article is based on data from 2285 national key leading enterprises in China's agricultural industrialization. It uses kernel density estimation, spatial autocorrelation analysis, optimal parameter geographic detector, and multi-scale geographic weighted regression (MGWR) models to explore the spatial pattern, influencing factors, and spatial heterogeneity of the distribution of national key leading enterprises in China's agricultural industrialization. The results show that: 1) National key leading enterprises in China's agricultural industrialization generally exhibit an "east-heavy, west-light" spatial distribution pattern, with a density that displays a "tripolar, multi-core" characteristic. 2) Natural geographical environment, economic development environment, technological innovation capabilities, transportation location conditions, and policy support all jointly influence the distribution of key national agricultural industrialization enterprises, and there are significant differences in the explanatory power of different influencing factors. 3) The dominant factors influencing the distribution of key national leading enterprises in China's agricultural industrialization exhibit different scale effects. The level of openness to the outside world is a global variable, while labor costs, the number of patent applications, industrial structure, labor force size, and government-business relations are local variables. 4) The distribution of national key leading enterprises in China's agricultural industrialization exhibits spatial heterogeneity in influencing factors. Among these, the Northeast region shows high values for the impacts of industrial structure, labor costs, and labor scale. The influence of openness to the outside world presents an east-west spatial differentiation pattern. The Pearl River Delta urban cluster demonstrates high values for the impact of patent application volume, while western regions exhibit high values for the influence of government-business relations.

  • ZHAO Bing, DING Yue, ZHAO Jiukun
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(8): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.08.001

    To explore the high-quality development level and spatiotemporal characteristics of China's airport economy, an evaluation index system was constructed based on the "airport-city-industry". Using data from 30 provinces in China, vertical and horizontal scatter degree approach was adopted to measure high-quality development index. Kernel density estimation, natural discontinuity grading, and Dagum Gini coefficient were employed to investigate the spatiotemporal evolution and regional differences. And exploring the influencing factors of the spatial differentiation by the means of the Geodetector. The results indicate that: 1) In the study period, the high-quality development of China's airport economy has shown a phased growth trend, with significant room for improvement. 2) The establishment of airport economy demonstration zones has intensified polarization, creating a "high in the east and low in the west" pattern and reducing regional balance. 3) The overall regional gap is more significant, showing a trend of narrowing, and the main reason for the regional gap is the gap between regions. 4)Infrastructure is the dominant influence on the spatial differentiation. Based on the above findings, efforts should be continued at this stage to promote the high-quality development of China's airport economy by optimizing the supporting infrastructure, maintaining regional differentiated management, and increasing government guidance and support.

  • DONG Yaojia, WANG Kaiyong, WANG Fuyuan, MENG Gui
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(9): 65-76. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.09.007

    This paper offers a comprehensive review of literature related to functional zones and administrative districts, spanning the period from 1993 to 2023. It examines these subjects from various angles including policy evolution, historical development, and international experience. The merger of research on functional zones and administrative districts aligns not only with strategic national deployment but also addresses practical governance requirements. On a broad scale, the focus of this research has been on model selection, functional positioning, and regional correlation effects, with the aim of constructing a more rational and efficient regional governance framework. Meanwhile, at medium and micro levels, empirical analysis and comparative research methods are employed to explore innovative paths for spatial integration, a burgeoning area of research. The interaction and reform of institutional mechanisms between functional zones and administrative districts directly impact the effectiveness of spatial governance and the degree of coordinated development. Future research should delve deeper into defining the collaborative paths and mechanisms for different kinds of functional zones and administrative districts, intensify the study of spatial integration and planning control, drive modernization of spatial governance via institutional innovation, and foster the process of coordinated development.

  • ZHU Jianhua, YANG Xiao, LIU Yubo
    Economic geograph. 2025, 45(12): 219-227. https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2025.12.022

    With the rise of short-video platforms, cultural and tourism short videos have gradually become an important channel for the public to obtain travel information and share travel experiences, while user interactions and feedback significantly influence the online attention and image perception of destinations. Taking "cultural tourism in northeast China" as the research focus, this study collects 500 short videos, 89849 comment texts, and 375 tourist locations from Douyin, explores the spatial attention pattern and emotional cognition of viewers toward cultural tourism in northeast China and analyzes their influence mechanisms based on the methods of principal component analysis, spatial analysis, text mining, and sentiment analysis. The findings show that: 1) The overall attention toward cultural and tourism short videos in northeast China shows an uneven distribution pattern, which is higher in the north and east of northeast China and lower in the central region of northeast China, with high-value areas mostly concentrated in regions with prominent resource endowments and complete urban functions. 2) Different types of cultural tourism destinations exhibit significant spatial differentiation: natural ecological sites show strong polarization characteristics, historical and cultural destinations form a "dual-core" structure centered on major cities, modern experiential tourism is concentrated mainly in the eastern region. 3) Viewer sentiments are predominantly positive, with high proportions of favorable comments reflecting a good online reputation for their tourism in northeast China, although some negative feedback—such as cold weather and high costs—also exists. 4) The level of online attention to cultural tourism destinations is jointly driven by video content, platform dissemination logic, and user emotional responses, with emotional expressions in the comments section playing a reverse role in shaping the online image of these destinations.