Spatial spillovers effects and spatial pattern of manufacturing industries evolvement in the Capital Metropolitan Region of China

This paper researches the area-characteristics and industrial-characteristics of agglomeration and dispersion of manufacturing industries in Capital Metropolitan Region of China by using exploratory Spatial Data Analysis, and evaluates the spatial spillovers effects of core-cities on changes of landscape of economic activities by building on spatial econometrics model. From 2001 to 2009, it has been more evident in reference to the general geographical pattern for most of manufacturing industries, that is, regions with similar development levels tend to be concentrated, and the trend has been intensified. Hot spot of each sector of manufacturing industries has moved to a certain extent. In the context of further agglomeration of aggregated economy in core-areas of Capital Metropolitan Region--Beijing and Tianjin, manufacturing industries tend to spread to surrounding suburban and rural counties. The regions close to core-areas have been the hot spots with respect to industrial development. Spatial spillovers of core-areas are proved in this paper to be one of important factors driving the agglomeration and dispersion of industries. Even though, effects of spatial spillovers vary from industrial sector and core city. Generally, Beijing brings out spread effects to the technology and capital intensive industries, but brings out backwash effects to the labor and energy intensive industries. However, Tianjin has not showed consistent spatial spillovers to surrounding regions in either growth of aggregated economy or specific industry.