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干旱区地理 ›› 2019, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (1): 180-186.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2019.01.21

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The measure research of economic relation and space difference of internal Oasis Town Group in Xinjiang

Li Xue-mei   

  1. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Development and Reform Commission, Economic Research Institute; Planning and Design Management Center,Transportation Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi 830002,Xinjiang,China
  • Online:2019-01-25 Published:2019-01-16

Abstract: Recently,improving coordinated development of internal town group has been paid more and more attention along with the new urban agglomeration development strategy. Accelerating the coordinated development of small and medium-sized cities and small towns is an important task of implementing regional coordinated development strategy. The oasis town group in Xinjiang is a relatively small and single geographical unit, with a spatial self-organized mode. The urban centrality index, urban economic connection model and Theil coefficient are applied to measure the centrality, economic connections and spatial differences of the eight oasis town groups in Xinjiang. The results demonstrate that the central cities in the oasis town groups always have strong central functions, and the central functions of the surrounding towns are relatively weak. These organizing patterns generated the single center of the spatial self-organizing mode in Xinjiang. The inter-regional economic connection inside the oasis town group was mainly dependent on the distance from a town to the central city. The oasis towns which are closer to the central city, will achieve the higher economic development levels, as well as the higher membership degree of economic relations. In the last decade, the overall spatial variation of the oasis town groups showed an expanding trend, and this trend was continuing. Based on the results, the regional cooperation coordination mechanism should be established to define the development direction of urban group and to strengthen the diffusive and driving role of central cities, as well as to realize the rational division of industry. Solving these problems effectively will be of great help for Xinjiang to harmonize coordinated development in oasis town groups.

Key words: oasis town group, economic connection, Spatial differences