Structure Evolution of Urban Network Through Enterprise Investment Routes: A Case Study of Yangtze River Delta
Received date: 2023-10-25
Revised date: 2024-01-14
Online published: 2024-07-08
Off-site investment relations among enterprises often bring the flow of capital, logistics, talent, information, and technology across cities, representing a new avenue for studying the urban network. Therefore, an increasing number of studies are investigating urban networks from the perspective of firm relations. Most of these studies mainly use data from intra-firm branches or mega firms' investment to quantify the linkages among cities. However, these studies have neglected the linkages among small-sized enterprises that are often located in small and medium-sized cities, resulting in the lack of authenticity in establishing urban networks. Recently, a small amount of research has begun to use wholesale enterprises' off-site investment data to construct urban networks. However, such research has neglected the indirect linkages and transit effects on enterprise investment routes. Therefore, this study uses investment data of all-industry enterprises from the Industrial and Commercial Enterprise Registration Database to propose a new method for establishing a directed weighted urban network by identifying off-site investment routes among enterprises, which could fill the gap in constructing urban networks from the perspective of micro capital flow. To verify the evolutionary characteristics of urban network structure before and after the implementation of major policies, this study considers the Yangtze River Delta as the empirical study area. Wholesale enterprise investment data from 2006 to 2020 in the Yangtze River Delta are used to construct three urban networks in three time stages. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) The growth model of the urban network scale shows that the growth of off-site investment routes drives the growth of off-site investment scale. The scale of enterprise nodes linked by off-site investment relations significantly increased from 2011 to 2015. However, after 2016, the proportion of off-site investment in the total investment of the Yangtze River Delta increased accordingly. (2) From the perspective of spatial patterns, the urban network of the study area has shifted from a polygonal network structure of interconnected core cities to a V-shaped structure centered around Shanghai, and then to a Z-shaped structure centered around Shanghai and Hangzhou. (3) In terms of network centrality, the cities exhibit a clear hierarchical structure. Although the network is evolving, the hierarchical structure has not changed significantly. However, the linkages between cities show a trend of clustering from low- to high-level cities. (4) In terms of network betweenness, the betweenness of most cities matches their centrality. Notably, the betweenness of Hefei and Wuhu is significantly stronger than their centrality. At different stages of the urban network evolution, cities with high betweenness, such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Hefei, play different intermediary roles in the network. This study constructs urban networks from a micro scale perspective of capital flow, thereby filling the gap in existing research. Additionally, unlike previous studies on urban networks that focus on static network structures, this study analyzes the structural evolution of urban networks based on long-term comprehensive data and verifies the characteristics of changes in the network structure, which has certain theoretical value and practical significance.
Zhouping Li , Chun Fu , Yuangang Li , Xiaoyu Liu . Structure Evolution of Urban Network Through Enterprise Investment Routes: A Case Study of Yangtze River Delta[J]. Tropical Geography, 2024 , 44(7) : 1236 -1248 . DOI: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.20230815
表1 长三角企业投资路径变化情况 (条)Table 1 The changes of enterprise investment route in the Yangtze River Delta |
| 年份 | 跨城投资路径数 | 跨省投资路径数 | 投资路径总数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006—2010 | 24 439 | 12 943 | 132 916 |
| 2011—2015 | 95 693 | 54 419 | 257 965 |
| 2016—2020 | 226 122 | 142 907 | 436 642 |
表2 城市节点相对强度的等级划分Table 2 The rank division of node-cities by relative strength |
| 等级 | 2006—2010年 | 2011—2015年 | 2016—2020年 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 等级一 | 上海0.22 | 上海0.21 | 上海0.21,杭州0.14 |
| 等级二 | 杭州0.11,南京0.08,苏州0.06 | 杭州0.12,苏州0.09,南京0.07 | 南京0.08,苏州0.07 |
| 等级三 | 宁波0.05,无锡0.05,合肥0.05,南通0.03, 绍兴0.03,嘉兴0.03,芜湖0.02,常州0.02 | 合肥0.05,宁波0.05,无锡0.04,芜湖0.03, 南通0.03,嘉兴0.02,绍兴0.02,常州0.02 | 宁波0.05,合肥0.05, 嘉兴0.03,无锡0.03,舟山0.03, 常州0.02,南通0.02,绍兴0.02 |
| 等级四 | 29个城市 | 29个城市 | 29个城市 |
表3 不同等级城市间相对边权的演化情况Table 3 The evolution of linkage weights between node-cities of different levels |
| 城市联系 | 2006—2010年 | 2011—2015年 | 2016—2020年 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 上海与副中心城市间 | 0.158 | 0.177 | 0.190 |
| 3个副中心城市间 | 0.027 | 0.028 | 0.033 |
| 4个中心与核心城市间 | 0.317 | 0.283 | 0.304 |
| 核心城市之间 | 0.047 | 0.050 | 0.041 |
| 中心与边缘城市 | 0.257 | 0.280 | 0.263 |
| 核心与边缘城市 | 0.148 | 0.141 | 0.123 |
| 边缘城市之间 | 0.046 | 0.041 | 0.046 |

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3 https://www.ndrc.gov.cn/xxgk/zcfb/ghwb/201606/t20160603_962187_ext.html
4 https://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2019/content_5462503.htm
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