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›› 2011, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (2): 195-201.DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2011.2.009

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Spatial variances of urbanization development in the economic belt on the northern slope of Tianshan Mountains

CAO Jian-Biao1,2, ZHANG Xiao-Lei1, DU Hong-Ru1, LI Xue-Mei1,2   

  1. 1. Xinjiang Institute of Economy and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China;
    2. Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2010-02-22 Revised:2010-06-03 Online:2011-03-15

Abstract:

We construct a synthtic evaluation index system for the regional urbanization.With the method of entropy, synthetic analyses of the urbanization level in the economic belt on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains in 2006 are carried out. The main findings are the following. First, the industrialization is the most important factor to promote the urbanization. At the same time,the urbanization mainly incorporates the fast development of the economic urbanization and the social urbanization.However, the population urbanization becomes weak in the overall contribution to the regional urbanization and lags behind the other urbanizations. Finally, using the method of the spatial autocorrelation,we found out that in the spatial distribution of urbanization there is a polarization process of the core cities, Urumqi, Karamay, and Shihezi.

Key words: urbanization, entropy, spatial autocorrelation, economic belt on the northern slope of Tianshan Mountains

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