The spatio-temporal characteristics and organizational mechanism of the"industry-space"pattern in towns and villages:Taking Wuhan as an example
Small towns are an important fulcrum for achieving the revitalization of rural industries.Therefore,exploring the spatiotemporal characteristics and organizational mechanisms of the"industry-space"pattern is an important foundation for promoting the coordinated development of towns and villages'industries.Among many cities,Wuhan takes the lead in paying continuous attention to and giving policies support to the towns and villages'industries,so that they can gain the first-mover advantage.In the context of urban expansion and the intensified flow of factors,these towns and villages'industries are facing the important task of functional transformation and income creation.The towns and villages'industries in Wuhan metropolitan area is interrelated with multiple levels,which not only serves the vast rural areas,but also continuously extends its functions to the urban area,forming a unique spatiotemporal organization model and development path,so it is a typical representative.This study takes the industries of towns and villages surrounding the main urban area of Wuhan as the research object,and using the POI data of Gaode Map from 2012 to 2019 as the sample.Methods such as kernel density analysis,trend surface analysis,nearest neighbor analysis,and spatial equilibrium analysis were used to comprehensively study the spatiotemporal distribution differences of the"industry-space"in towns and villages.The influencing factors were verified using differences-in-differences and geographical detectors.The results indicate that:1)During the research period,Wuhan towns and villages'industries experienced large-scale expansion,and the expansion rate increased year by year.The spatial distribution changed from"scattered cluster"to"circle cluster"characteristic from inside to outside.Each cluster presents a spindle-type structure with significant linear extension.On the whole,the towns and villages'industries of each street showed non-synchronous and non-uniform growth;2)on the overall level,the industries in Wuhan towns and villages shows a"cohesive"distribution state and tends to stabilize.On the one hand,such a distribution can maximize the use of the limited resources,and on the other hand,it can also reach the threshold of economies of scale by mutual assistance and cooperation to maximize economic benefits;3)the industries in Wuhan towns and villages at the street level show a concentrated distribution trend,and the imbalanced characteristics are beginning to emerge.Such a trend indicates that the towns and villages'industries are concentrated in a few streets,and the streets in the weak location are difficult to absorb more industries in the competition,and the Matthew effect of the towns and villages'industries layout begins to appear.Further exploring the organizational mechanism of the spatiotemporal differences of industries in towns and villages in Wuhan,it was found that the policy environment,market environment and facility environment affect the spatiotemporal distribution of town and village industries to different degrees.It can be summarized as follows.The policy environment is the catalytic driving force for the distribution of industries in towns and villages,while the market environment and facility environment are the supporting forces for the distribution of industries in towns and villages.Specifically,the former is manifested in the fact that all kinds of favorable agricultural policies clearly point out the problems in the quantity and scale of various agricultural product processing enterprises,and put forward the industrial parks pattern and the linkage pattern of towns and villages,so as to incline all resources to the key agricultural areas and promote the spatial pattern with characteristics.The latter shows that the secondary and tertiary industries have greatly accelerated in the process of Wuhan's urbanization,providing a solid foundation for the modernization of towns and villages'industries.At the same time,government departments also actively provide funds and training services,promoting the differentiation of towns and villages industrial patterns.In terms of transportation facilities,the distribution of towns and villages'industries has changed from dependence on high-grade transportation facilities to dependence on logistics networks.In order to further promote the revitalization of towns and villages'industries,the study believes that at the level of policy and system,we should fully tap the surplus capacity of township industries,accelerate the process of enterprises entering the industrial parks,and help industrial entities overcome the difficulties of transformation.At the level of economic environment development,actively excavate the gaps and shortcomings of the industrial chain within the metropolitan area,sort out and construct the division of labor system between the towns and villages'industries and the transfer enterprises in the central urban area.At the level of transportation facilities construction,improve and make up for the shortcomings of logistics,further enhance the production and service functions of towns and villages industries,and promote their scale effect and radiation effect.
town and village industriesthe patio-temporal distributionregional patterndifferences-in-differencesgeographical detectorsWuhan