High-speed rail (HSR) can potentially influence various economic activities across space. Estimating the impacts of HSR on service-sector agglomeration (SSA) was proven to be difficult but meaningful. In this paper, prefectural-level data from 1998 t...
The Chinese government has promoted intelligent, green, and integrated transformation to advance sustainable manufacturing. Central to this strategy is the Service-Oriented Manufacturing Demonstration (SOMD) policy, which aims to deepen manufacturing...
With urban rail transit networks gradually entering a mature stage of development, whether newly added lines and stations can still improve local labour market outcomes remains an important question in transport planning and urban regeneration resear...
The green transformation of the service sector is crucial for promoting the construction of ecological civilization and boosting high-quality development. The aim of the relationship between environmental regulation and eco-efficiency is to explore t...
Elucidating the impacts of service industry’s agglomeration on the optimization of industrial structures holds paramount significance in advancing urban economic growth and fostering the coordinated and sustainable development of city economies...
Many of the world’s economies experienced rapid structural changes due to globalization and other forces over the past 50 years. During this period, developing countries were the recipients of massive foreign direct investment, and their indust...
The data from 285 prefecture-level cities in China are selected as research samples from 2005 to 2021, using the panel data of listed companies. The empirical study examines the impact of regional industrial agglomeration levels on enterprise innovat...
Agglomeration and dispersion forces fundamentally determine urban and regional development. While traditional views on agglomeration forces are primarily from a production perspective, the growing literature focuses on the consumption perspective and...
In the context of escalating global concerns for “carbon neutrality and peak carbon” and the urgent need for ecological conservation, deciphering the spatiotemporal interactions between carbon emissions and the ecosystem service value (ES...
This study investigates the impact of industrial agglomeration on the upgrading of China’s automobile industry (UCAI) using panel data from 28 Chinese provinces spanning 2000 to 2020. The automobile industry is vital to China’s manufactur...
The digital economy has profoundly reshaped industrial organizational structures and the spatial distribution of cooperative agglomerations in the manufacturing and productive service sectors. To support the coordinated and sustainable development of...
In this paper, we present the concept of “sequencing economics”, consisting of (A) segmentation, (B) construction sequencing, and (C) functions. An agglomeration is organized into segments, and sequencing economics examines the sequential...
Jiangsu province’s forestry industry offers valuable insights for resource-poor regions in China. This study aims to determine the competitiveness of different forestry sectors in Jiangsu province and identify the industrial structural changes...
Emerging industrial agglomeration drives green transformation through knowledge spillovers and economies of scale. However, its effects exhibit pronounced nonlinearity and heterogeneity, shaped by spatial externalities and development stages. This pa...
This study chose 4667 listed firms with headquarters in China as the research objects. The spatial aggregations of headquarters in sub-periods and subsectors were investigated based on prefecture-level cities using Global Moran’s I statistic, t...
Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBSs) are key links in leading the sustainable development of cities. Studying the spatial pattern and influencing factors of urban KIBSs can help improve the utilization of KIBS resources. Taking the Wuhan met...
Promoting the integration of the industrial and innovation chains (ICIC) constitutes a crucial strategy adopted by the Chinese government to foster sustainable economic development. Industrial intelligence (II), as a prominent application of artifici...
Energy sustainability constitutes an important goal for development, as declared at the global and the European levels. Some conditions decisive for energy performance, as suggested by the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, may be specifie...
1 June 2025
The digital creative industry (DCI) has become an integral part of China’s strategic emerging industries. This paper, utilizing county-level data from Chinese digital creative enterprises in 2022, examines the locational factors influencing the...
This study explores the spatial and temporal evolution of Paomo restaurants in Xi’an’s central urban area from 2012 to 2023, utilizing point-of-interest (POI) data and advanced analytical techniques. Employing methods such as nearest neig...
Industrial new towns have become important spatial instruments for regional economic development in China, yet many continue to struggle to attract and retain a stable workforce, support long-term settlement, and provide a complete urban living envir...
Urban agglomerations rely on both direct physical water intake and substantial virtual water embedded in cross-regional traded commodities and services to meet water demand. It is important to analyze the complex virtual water flows in urban agglomer...
Industrial linkages play a crucial role in sustaining industrial agglomerations, driving economic growth, and shaping the spatial architecture of economic systems. This study explores the complexity of causal networks within the industrial ecosystems...
The development of metropolitan cities inevitably relies on natural resources beyond their boundary through trade of materials and products, particularly within the same urban agglomeration. Meanwhile trade facilitates the optimization of resource al...
One of the constituent elements of the industrial district is the existence of local and regional institutions which offer information and support services to the firms based in the district. These institutions, as has been shown in the literature on...
With 19 million inhabitants, Mexico City is the most populated agglomeration in Latin America, concentrating 30% of the national population. More than 61% of municipal solid waste (MSW) is sent to landfills, and 13% of MSW is recovered by Informal Se...
The important role of the entity economy, especially manufacturing, has been further highlighted after the outbreak of COVID-19. This study fills a research gap on manufacturing in the Wuhan Metropolitan Area by analyzing the spatio-temporal evolutio...
Industrial restructuring is widely considered an important force in regional economic growth and sustainable development. With increased globalization and economic transition, a dramatic industrial restructuring has been taking place in China. Applyi...
10 February 2023
Disparities in access to health services in rural areas represent a global health issue. Various external factors contribute to these disparities and each root requires specific remedial action to alleviate the issue. This study elucidates an approac...
Rapid incremental urbanization in China has resulted in an incomplete modern infrastructure system and multiple point-like flaws. This is due to a lack of funding and poor scientific construction concepts and procedures. This also contributes to the...
The popular press and academic literature show that the urban-rural divide persists with regard to recent telecommunications technologies, such as broadband and wireless service. As was the case for landline telephony, this lack of deployment in rura...
This Editorial introduces the Special Issue “Spatial Planning and Land-Use Management: 2nd Edition” and discusses the eight articles published in it. Taken together, these contributions demonstrate that contemporary spatial planning and l...
In the new paradigm where the digital economy is profoundly reshaping urban spatial organization, how the platform economy transcends traditional geographical constraints to restructure the urban system has become a strategic issue in urban geography...
To alleviate the severe supply–demand imbalance and promote coordinated socioeconomic and ecological development in the Kuye River Basin of Inner Mongolia, this study constructed an optimal water resources allocation model based on the General...
The accelerated growth of the global economy has given rise to a multitude of environmental concerns that demand immediate attention. At this juncture, the total global carbon emissions are exhibiting a gradual increase. China, the United States, Ind...
The resource-based city is a type of city with pronounced ageing problems. Correctly grasping the socio-economic adaptability to ageing in resource-based cities can help actively guide the direction of urban development and build a new socio-economic...