County-Level Economic Disparities in Inner Mongolia Based on ESDA

Based on global and local spatial autocorrelation of ESDA,the spatial differences of the regional economic development level of Inner Mongolia was investigated by using the data of GDP per capita at county level in 2001,2003,2005,2007 and 2009.The results indicated that the spatial agglomerate phenomenon of regional economic development levels of Inner Mongolia appeared on the whole since 2001.However,from 2001 to 2009,the Moran's I value had a descendant trend,suggesting the enlargement of the prefectural economic difference.Significant local spatial auto-correlation was also found.The counties with the significant high-high correlation were mainly distributed in Erdos.While the counties with the significant low-low correlation were located in Chifeng and Ulanqab.