Effects of urban growth poles on economic development in central and western China
Received date: 2008-07-08
Revised date: 2010-01-16
Online published: 2010-03-20
In order to analyze the possible effects of growth poles on Central Rise and Western Development in the central and western China, this paper constructs a spread-backwash effects model based on the theories of growth pole and unbalanced growth, and applies a spatial simultaneous statistical model to a dataset of 942 cities and counties in the ten central and western provinces for the period from 2000 to 2007. The statistical results show that central cities, presented by prefecture or higher level cities, had net spread effects of non-agricultural GDP growth on county-level cities and counties, suggesting that different levels of cities and counties had a tendency to develop economies complementary to each other. However, these larger, central cities showed backwash effects of employment growth on the county-level cities and spread effects on rural counties. Neighboring county-level cities had strong net spread effects on each other in both non-agricultural GDP and employment growths, but the county-level cities exerted negative effects on growth of rural counties, especially in non-agricultural GDP growth. Several important policy lessons are drawn from this study. First, the research findings in general support the growth pole strategy adopted by virtually all of the provinces in the central and western regions. Second, the evidence of backwash effect of large cities on the neighboring cities calls for new policy initiatives to mitigate competition for the same types of workers and professionals. Third, integration and collaboration of economies in neighboring cities should be an important component of the overall growth strategy for each region to fully benefit from a growth pole strategy. Fourth, the research findings also suggest a need for improvement on regional transportation infrastructure and education to close the gaps between the central and western regions and the eastern region.
KE Shan-zi . Effects of urban growth poles on economic development in central and western China[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2010 , 29(3) : 521 -534 . DOI: 10.11821/yj2010030015
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