A Comparative Analysis on the Development of Manufacturing Agglomeration in Guangdong and Jiangxi

With the relevant data,this paper compares manufacturing agglomeration of Guangdong province with that of Jiangxi province respectively in terms of the regional industry.Then we find that manufacturing agglomeration of Jiangxi is more concentrated than that of Guangdong,and manufacturing industry of Guangdong has also emerged in the trend of spreading to the surrounding areas.Further analysis showed that industries of the highest agglomeration are capital or technology-intensive industries and the most decentralized industries are labor-intensive ones with low-technology.The gathering momentum of Guangdong and Jiangxi has significant difference in some resource processing industries,capital-and technology-intensive industries and a long history of traditional industries.The empirical results show that the factors of manufacturing agglomeration have some differences and similarities.The main reason for the difference may arise from the natural advantages,agglomeration effects and differences in the meaning of different provinces,but the policy and institutional factors are still dominant.