Empirical Analysis of Space-time Evolution of Geographic Agglomeration of China's Manufacturing Based on the Data from 1980 to 2008

The paper measures the space-time evolution of geographic agglomeration of china's manufacturing.The results indicate that the overall agglomeration degree in China's manufacturing significantly increases and East China is the main agglomeration region in manufacturing.Economic globalization has important impacts on the spatial distribution of manufacturing,and the features and space-time changing tendency of geographic agglomeration in different manufacturing industries vary wildly;regional specialization pattern in manufacturing has been basically formed.In recent years,the centrifugal force to promote industrial diffusion begins to be effective,and some manufacturing industries have been experiencing the transition from East China to other regions.