Author(s)

Chaopeng Li

Institute of Regional Development, College of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Based on micro-blog big data, this article will conduct an analysis on the follow-up data of every prefecture-level city’s micro-blog data and these cities all lie along the Beijing-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway. Then we found that the asymmetry lied in the connection between these cities and there was a provincial-level barrier among them. By comparing the situation before and after the operation of high-speed railway, we realize that this kind of provincial-level barrier still exists. Meanwhile, as the Beijing-Guangzhou High-Speed railway is put into operation and the connection among the cities along the railway has been strengthened, the connection presents the tendency of decentralization.

High Speed Railway, Urban Contact, Asymmetry, Provincial-Level Barrier, Decentralization

Li, C. (2017) High-Speed Railways’ Impact on the Connection of Cities along the Line Based on the Analysis of Micro-Blog Data. American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 7, 566-580. doi: 10.4236/ajibm.2017.75042.