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The advent of globally distributed computing services and network access allows ‘big data’ on consumption to be used to model, explain and predict consumer behavior at resolutions that range from individual cities to whole countries. Given access to suitable infrastructure, the most significant challenge is to create conditions under which ‘Data Scientists’ may access and manipulate the required data...
The spatial pattern of economic zones is changing ceaselessly during the process of its natural, historical and objective evolution. In China, the scientific division and function of economic zones in the new period expedite the regional harmonious development and the building of a well-off society. With the support of geographical information technology, 16 regional central cities and 21 sub-central...
This paper examines the development impacts of French TGV and analyzes its implications for China. It first provides the research background and introduces the relevance of European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) to the theme of China's coordinated urban and rural development and planning. The paper then reviews the most important literatures related to the development impacts of high-speed...
Landsat TM images of the Pearl River Delta taken in 1988, 1998 and 2006 are used to explore the Construction land Expansion and the Influence of Site Factors. The expansion shows the characteristics of gathering on plains and along major roads and coastlines in both periods from 1988 to 1998 and from 1998 to 2006. Several site factors, including landscape types and the distance from roads, coastlines,...
China's Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) is prone to flood, where the population exposure, death risk and economic loss risk are very high. We apply an ArcGIS environment to combine the gridded data of the world population (GPW) and flood disaster risk data from Hotspots and Chinese administrative division to analyze the spatial distributions of flood occurrence frequency, death risk, economic loss...
In order to make a quantitative study about accessibility of cities in China, the spatial analyst module functions of ARCGIS were mainly used to do an empirical research about it based on land traffic network structure and calculations of optimal road routes and time to cities of China, which generated accessibility diffusion graph and average accessibility graph of cities. And then, the ESDA was...
Bohai Rim region is one of the most important economic regions. Its economic status has been improved. And its industrial structure has been optimized. But the second industries are still based. Meanwhile, the three provinces and two cities in Bohai Rim region have different industrial layout. The development among them was not balanced, and the similar industrial structure still exists. Especially...
This paper develops the model of urban social capital based on perpetual inventory method and individual social network, and measures the social capital stock of 203 cities in China during the period from 1988 to 2008. The results show that, the inequality, labor expected revenue, the expected investment rate of social capital, the probability of job mobility and social capital across the life of...
Eco-city research has been given close attention during the past decades, and the evaluation of it has become a key part. According to the research results of eco-city evaluation at home and abroad, an evaluation index system has been established, including resource and environment, economy, socio-culture and management. On the basis of the index system, fuzzy matter-element model is used to evaluate...
Urbanization is the both the result of the social and economic development and the essential trend of history. The time of beginning of urbanization of China is later than that of European countries, which started in late period of 19th century. Until now, the speed of urbanization is slow and the development is imbalanced in China. Nowadays, the urbanization of China is in the period of acceleration...
The exploitation of coastal beach plays a great role in promoting the development of local economy. The employment of different development modes of coastal beach will in different degrees influence local resources, environment, ecosystem stability, economic and social development and so on. Therefore, the choice of a scientific and rational model is particularly important to the exploitation of coastal...
This paper outlines the trajectory of international planning and design practice in China, focusing on the post-reform era, and challenges and problems that manifested. It shows the initial focus on new concepts and material consideration of space in inviting international practice, and the recent local concerns of a more environmentally and culturally sensitive practice. The paper highlights the...
China's urbanization process has been accelerated since the Reform and Opening-up. Although it makes a lot of successes, it also brings some problems which affected China's economic and society's sustainable development. China's special national conditions and development stage determine the complexity of China's urbanization process. In this article, we focus on causes of the Delay-urbanization and...
The 21st century is the critical period that the development strategy of urbanization of China to implement, urbanization's success is a direct impact on the healthy economic and social development of China, but the accelerating urbanization causes a severe challenge to the sustainable development. The eastern coastal regions' economic development is the most rapid one of China, and its urbanization...
As a central city in the western area of China and the upriver area of Yangtse, Chongqing has been endowed with many preferential policies by government. This paper tries to develop two kinds of mode suitable for Chongqing to develop urban-rural balanced bidirectional logistic system, which may be helpful to change the dual structure and hence harmonize the development of the urban and the rural....
The central government of China draw out an important policy "Pothook of City Construction Land Increase and Rural Residential Land Decrease", which has been carried out in many districts allowed by the government, to alleviate the supply-demand contradiction of landuse. This paper analyzes the method to assess rationality of the project of Pothook of City Construction Land Increase and...
In order to present a more reasonable means for the development of China's urban rail transit system, the present thesis, adopting methods of diachronic comparison and synchronic comparison, analyses the system structure, the differences between the Chinese and the overseas, and the development trend of urban rail transit systems after processing a large number of data of both home and abroad. The...
In order to rank and cluster the economic status of Household Consumption Expenditure in 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions, the MATLAB software is used and the principal component analysis and the K-M cluster analysis are conducted on the data reflecting the economic status of each area. The results show that the provinces or cities with high comprehensive, scores are Shanghai Municipality,...
The paper analyzes the causes for low integrated innovation ability in science and technology of Chinese agricultural enterprises and aims to build mathematical model methods to analyze the internal causes for integrated innovation ability in science and technology of Chinese agricultural enterprises. The paper also analyzes the existing integrated innovation ability in science and technology of 29...
In order to provide some new development ideas for intra-county economy in different levels of China, the development experiences of intra-county from the developed countries can be referred according to the development characteristics of intra-county economy in China. Then the ideas and countermeasures are drawn by using these experiences. Finally, the effectiveness of the countermeasures can be...
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