The Recovery of China’s Industrial Parks in the First Wave of COVID-19

Changcheng Kan, Qiwei Ma (), Zhaoya Gong (), Yuanjing Qi and Anrong Dang
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Changcheng Kan: Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Beijing 100085, China
Qiwei Ma: School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Zhaoya Gong: School of Urban Planning & Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China
Yuanjing Qi: School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Anrong Dang: School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 22, 1-15

Abstract: Industrial parks are functional urban areas that carry the capacity to support highly concentrated production activities. The robustness and anti-interference ability of these areas are of great importance to maintaining economic vitality of a country. Focusing on the rate of production recovery (RPR), this paper examines the recovery of 436 major industrial parks in mainland China during the first wave of COVID-19. Leveraging spatio-temporal big data, we measured 14 attributes pertaining to industrial parks, covering four categories, namely spatial location, central city, park development, and public service. We focused on the spatial association and heterogeneity of the recovery patterns and identified the factors that truly affected the recovery of industrial parks with quantitative evaluation of their effects. The results reveal that: (1) RPR of industrial parks are significantly spatially clustered, with an obvious “cold spot” in the early outbreak area of Hubei Province and a prominent “center-periphery” pattern in developed areas, which is highly correlated with the spread of the epidemic. (2) The mechanisms driving the resumption of industrial parks are complex and versatile. All four categories in the variable matrix are related to RPR, including up to eight effective influencing factors. The effect of influencing factors is spatially heterogeneous, and its intensity varies significantly across regions. What is more interesting is that some impact factors show positive effects in some industrial parks while inhibiting the recovery in others. On the basis of the discussion of those findings with practical experiences, the planning and construction strategies of industrial park are suggested to mitigate the impact of similar external shocks.

Keywords: industrial parks; production recovery; spatial heterogeneity; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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