Industrial Transformation and Urban Economic Efficiency Evolution: An Empirical Study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Yin Dong, Baishu Guo, Dawei He, Xiaoli Liao, Zhengyu Zhang and Xueqin Wu
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Yin Dong: School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Baishu Guo: School of Arts and Communication, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Dawei He: Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
Xiaoli Liao: Hubei Geological Survey Institute, Wuhan 430030, China
Zhengyu Zhang: School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Xueqin Wu: Guishan Mountain Scenic Area, Wuhan 430050, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 7, 1-19

Abstract: Industrial transformation and high-quality urban development have become the core issues of urban-rural coordination and the leap forward in development in the new era. The research perspective of ‘pattern-process-mechanism’ is needed to reveal the spatiotemporal correlation characteristics of industrial transformation and urban economic efficiency evolution, and to expand its systematic, comprehensive and regional characteristics. Based on the geographical cognitive of local effects and spatial non-stationarity, we used a quantile regression model and a geographically weighted regression model to analyze the dynamic mechanism of industrial transformation and urban economic efficiency to explain the path characteristics of urban development and industrial transformation of the Yangtze River economic belt. The conclusions are as follows: (1) From 2000 to 2015, the average economic efficiency in the Yangtze River economic belt increased from 0.05 to 0.332, and the pattern gradually changed from spatial homogeneity to spatial mosaic; (2) From 2000 to 2015, the range and intensity of industrial transformation in the Yangtze River economic belt showed an increasing trend, while the speed of industrial transformation showed a downward trend, and the high-value unit of the three showed the characteristics of gradual homogenization; (3) From the perspective of the impact of industrial transformation on urban economic efficiency, the impact of the range and speed of industrial transformation on urban economic efficiency was gradually weakened, while the impact of the intensity of industrial transformation on urban economic efficiency was gradually strengthened, and the patterns of the three show the characteristics of a spatially inverted U-shaped distribution with high values in the middle reaches and low values in the upstream and downstream areas.

Keywords: urban economic efficiency; industrial transformation; spatiotemporal variation; quantile regression; geographically weighted regression (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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