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Arid Land Geography ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (12): 2086-2097.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.223

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Network structure and symbiotic development of tourism economy in Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and local government

BAI Yang1,2(),WU Jian2(),DOU Kailong3,LU Wen2,TAN Li’na2,Halidan BAKE4   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory for Sustainable Development of Historical and Cultural Tourism, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, China
    2. School of Tourism, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, China
    3. School of Marxism, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, China
    4. School of Economics and Management, Yili Vocational Technical College, Yining 835000, Xinjiang, China
  • Received:2023-05-14 Revised:2023-08-27 Online:2023-12-25 Published:2024-01-05

Abstract:

Achieving high-quality development for both the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) and the local government of Xinjiang, China necessitates integrated tourism development. This paper, grounded in the theory of symbiosis, utilized tourism resources and economic data from XPCC and Xinjiang. Employing methodologies such as the accessibility model, tourism economic linkage strength model, kernel density estimation, average nearest neighbor analysis, and Tyson polygon, it investigates the symbiotic evolution of tourism resources, economic contact changes, and network structure characteristics within XPCC and Xinjiang. The study aims to uncover the tourism symbiotic development pattern, structure, and mechanism between the two entities. The findings revealed the following key insights: (1) Spatial agglomeration characteristics of tourism resources between XPCC and the local government are consistently strengthening, with resource exploitation showcasing a partial-benefit symbiotic relationship. (2) Pronounced unbalanced symbiotic characteristics exist in tourism resources between XPCC and Xinjiang, illustrating a distribution pattern where “XPCC relies on Xinjiang, the weak depends on the strong”. This distribution pattern manifests as a symbiotic evolution of “one heart in the center with multiple points around→multiple hearts with multiple points on the periphery”. (3) Accessibility, relying on the tourism transportation network to establish a more beneficial symbiotic link, exhibits an attenuating structure from the central to outer sphere. (4) Tourism economic connections exhibit characteristics of distance attenuation, north-south differences, gaps between XPCC and the local government, and coupling effects among neighboring cities. (5) The paper introduces a regional symbiosis model encompassing “intermittent parasitic, intermittent symbiosis, and mutualism”, and traces the progression of cultural symbiosis from primary to secondary stages, along with dimensions such as resource symbiosis and industrial symbiosis in host-guest interactions. The study concludes by summarizing the symbiotic development structure of “one core, three points, eight centers, two circles, and three belts”, alongside the symbiotic development mechanism of “respective development→cooperative development→mutual development”.

Key words: tourism economy, network structure, symbiotic development, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Xinjiang