Research on the spatial correlation of industrial natural gas price market in China under the background of national unified market
The spatial correlation of natural gas price market is a key indicator reflecting the operating efficiency of the natural gas market.It is of great practical significance to construct and improve the unified natural gas market and explore the spatial transmission mechanism of natural gas price.Based on the inter-provincial industrial natu-ral gas panel data of China from January 2012 to February 2023,this paper verifies the spatial correlation of in-dustrial natural gas price market,and uses social network analysis to describe the spatial correlation network of in-dustrial natural gas price market.The results show that the overall structure of the industrial natural gas price space market network is stable and presents complexity and multi threading,with spatial spillovers among provinces.Specifically,provinces such as Shandong,Guangxi,and Hebei have higher degree of centrality;the price network of China's industrial natural gas is divided into four sectors:broker,net benefit,main benefit and net spillover,among which there are"spillover effects"and"gradient effects"between these sectors.The next step is to strengthen the collaboration mechanism within the natural gas market,especially to promote information ex-change through cooperation between government and business,which is crucial to promote the transformation of the natural gas industry to market.
unified national marketindustrial natural gas pricemarket spatial correlationsocial network analysis