A case research on economic spatial distribution and differential of agriculture in China ——An application to Hunan province based on the data of 1999, 2006 and 2010

Jian Wang, Zhenghe Zhang, Baozhong Su, Liyang Zhang

China Finance and Economy News, Beijing, China.
College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Professor, College of Economic and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/as.2012.38121                

Abstract

This paper is to provide an empirical work for agricultural spatial distribution of agriculture. We consider the spatial location pattern in order to offer spatial views on the agricultural economic research and how Chinese agricultural economic spatial location pattern is forming, we also tested the agglomeration situation of agriculture and the process is going on in the future. The results indicate that the periphery areas exist significant differential among regions in Hunan province, China. It really presents some kinds of agglomeration pattern of agriculture and characteristic spatial autocorrelation; the biggest rate of contribution to the region agriculture economic gap is productivity per agriculture worker.

Keywords

Geography Economic; Agriculture location; Economic differential; Moran’I; Core-Periphery

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

References

[1]	Brülhart, M. (1998) Economic geography, industry location, and trade: The evidence. The World Economy, 21, 775-801. doi:10.1111/1467-9701.00163
[2]	De Lucio, J., Herce, J. and Goicolea, A. (2002) The effects of externalities on productivity growth in Spanish industry. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 32, 241-258. doi:10.1016/S0166-0462(01)00081-3
[3]	Venables, A.J. (1996) Equilibrium locations of vertically linked industries. International Economic Review, 37, 341- 359. doi:10.2307/2527327
[4]	Fujita, M., Krugman, P. and Venables, A. (1999) The spatial economy. MIT Press, Cambridge.
[5]	Fujita, M. and Thisse (2002) Economics of agglomeration: Cities, industrial location, and regional growth. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge..
[6]	Fujita, M. and Thisse, J.F. (2002) Economics of agglomeration: Cities, industial location, and regional growth. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
[7]	Gruber, S. and Soci, A. (2010), Agglomeration, agriculture, and the perspective of the periphery. Spatial Economic Analysis, 5. doi:10.1080/17421770903511353
[8]	Ottaviano, G.I.P. and Puga, D. (1998) Agglomeration in the global economy: A survey of the new economic geography, World Economy, 21, 707-731. doi:10.1111/1467-9701.00160
[9]	Ottaviano, G.I.P. and Robert-Nicoud, F. (2006) The “genome” of NEG models with vertical linkages: A positive and normative synthesis. Journal of Economic Geography, 6, 113-139. doi:10.1093/jeg/lbh070
[10]	Hanson, G.H. (2001) Scale economies and the geographic concentration of industry. Journal of Economic Geography, 1, 255-276. doi:10.1093/jeg/1.3.255
[11]	Wiggins, S. and Proctor, S. (2001) How special are rural areas? The economic implications of location for rural development. Development Policy Review, 19, 427-436. doi:10.1111/1467-7679.00142
[12]	Baldwin, R.E. (2001) Core-periphery model with forward-looking expectations. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 31, 21-49. doi:10.1016/S0166-0462(00)00068-5
[13]	Bosker, M., Brakman, S., Garretsen, H. and Schramm, M. (2007) Looking for multiple equilibria when geography matters: German city growth and the WWII shock. Journal of Urban Economics, 61, 152-169. doi:10.1016/j.jue.2006.07.001
[14]	Chan, K.W. (1994) Urbanization and rural-urban migration in China since 1982: A new baseline. Modern China, 20, 243-328. doi:10.1177/009770049402000301
[15]	Duranton, G. and Overman, H. (2005) Testing for localisation using micro-geographic data. Review of Economic Studies, 72, 1077-1106. doi:10.1111/0034-6527.00362