Spatial Structure Feature of Urban System in Economic Zone on Western Coast of China

In the context of economic globalization,Fujian is in the comprehensive industrialization stage.For all kinds of resources fluid collecting and dispersion,Fujian's development has both opportunities and challenges.In the future regional planning work,it is important to study how to build a hierarchical structure,functional structure,and spatial structure of urban system in order to push the coordinating development among regions,and make the economic zone on the western coast of China grow up successfully.Therefore,based on the status of urban system,this paper analyzed the structural feature of urban system from four aspects,including node,axis,network and region.The results show: 1) the economic development has formed a pattern with 2 main centers(Xiamen,Fuzhou),1 subcenter(Quanzhou),6 regional centers and a batch of production towns;2) the economic development level in the southeastern Fujian is higher than that in northwestern Fujian,and the central region is next to the southeastern Fujian;3) spatial distribution of urban system is reasonable;and 4) the difference of economic development level of all regional gradient is fairly great.