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Arid Land Geography ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (11): 1927-1937.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.097

• Regional Development • Previous Articles    

Spatiotemporal pattern and spatial spillover effect of cultural industry clusters in the Yellow River Basin

LU Zidao1(),SONG Wanyi1,WANG Yue2(),PAN Haize2,MENG Xiaolin1,YAN Yuqiang1   

  1. 1. College of City and Environment, Northwestern University, Xi’an 710100, Shannxi, China
    2. College of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610000, Sichuan, China
  • Received:2023-03-04 Revised:2023-05-05 Online:2023-11-25 Published:2023-12-05

Abstract:

In the context of high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin of China, establishing cultural industry clusters and exploring of spatial spillover effects is of utmost importance for accelerating the transition toward high-quality development in the basin, while fostering balanced regional development. In this study, based on a comprehensive understanding of the concept of industrial clusters, a cultural industry cluster level index system, was devised. It leverages data from 62 cities in the Yellow River Basin, from 2005 to 2020, as samples. This study calculated cultural industry cluster levels in these urban regions, investigated the spatial correlation of these cluster levels using Moran’s I, and constructed different spatial weight matrices. The spatial Durbin model was employed to explore the influencing factors behind cultural industry cluster spillover effects and analyze the pathways of these influencing factors. The study results are as follows: (1) Between 2005 and 2020, the average index of cultural industry clusters in the Yellow River Basin increased from 0.07 to 0.21. However, this distribution was extremely uneven, showing a development pattern of “high in the east and low in the west.” The distribution of cities within different cluster levels showed a “positive triangle” pattern. (2) There is a noticeable negative spatial spillover effect on the cultural industry cluster levels in the Yellow River Basin, and the presence of a “Matthew effect” is very severe. (3) The decomposition of the spatial spillover effect reveals that the selected influencing factors have negative spillover effects on the cultural industry cluster levels in neighboring cities. (4) The spatial spillover effect shows a notable correlation with spatial distance. The positive spatial spillover effect is strongest when the geographical distance reaches 500 km, and it gradually diminishes as distances exceed 850 km, exhibiting an inverted “U” shape trend. Finally, the study uncovered a distinct “cluster shadow” phenomenon among cities in the Yellow River Basin, with a weak positive spillover effect. Therefore, to accelerate the development of cultural industry clusters in the Yellow River Basin, improve regional competitiveness, and narrow regional development gaps, establishing the theoretical concept of synergistic development is crucial. Leveraging opportunities for urban revitalization and adopting context-specific development modes according to the development of cultural industry clusters can considerably contribute to the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.

Key words: Yellow River Basin, cultural industry, cluster level, influencing factors, spatial spillover effect