The paper constructed an industrialization index system by the principal component analysis. After calculating the compositive scores of every county, the paper took this achievement as a spatial analytic basic variable using GIS to analyze spatial-temporal differentiation of industry development in western coastal China in 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008, respectively. The results show that: 1 ) Considering the overall spatial variability,the node-axes structure of industry is obvious. It composed of two main cores—Fuzhou and Xiamen, and the effect of spatial spillovers between core area and outlying district has been more powerful since the 1990s. 2 )According to the analysis of high-value clusters, the hot spot of industry remains stable in different periods, and the western and northern areas are always in the edge of industrial structure. And 3) from the view of manufacturing industry, the differences not only exist between coast and inland, but also exist inside coast and inland.Additionally, the agglomeration degree of diffenernt industries shows an obvious discrepancy. Finally, the paper proposes the direction and tendency of spatial structure of industry in the future.
spatial structure of industryevolution of spatial patternurban agglomeration in western coastal China