Advances in Earth Science ›› 2003, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (2): 270-276. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2003.02.0270

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REVIEW OF REGIONAL SPATIAL RESTRUCTURE UNDER ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION

Ma Li,Liu Yi   

  1. Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
  • Received:2002-06-06 Revised:2002-09-26 Online:2003-04-10 Published:2003-04-01

Ma Li,Liu Yi. REVIEW OF REGIONAL SPATIAL RESTRUCTURE UNDER ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2003, 18(2): 270-276.

In the nearly 50 years, the rapid developments of transportation and communication technology has released many limits to the location choices of economic activity. The liberalization of international finance has decreased the block of the flowing of capitals and the standardization of production has reduced the dependence on special skill workers. Hence, many TNCs could organize their productions all of world. However, the dependence on local milieu of technological innovation and knowledge innovation made the enterprises accumulated. So, it could be say that the spatial location of production will take the form as complicated accumulation or diffusion, which make the regional spatial structure with the special character. In recent 20 years geographical literatures, there are many discussions and disputations on the regional spatial structure under economic globalization. On the one side, many scholars think that new economic geographyis appearing. Economic globalization announced the end of geography and the die of distance. On the other side, many scholars think that place is still the important base of economic location, which mainly embodied in sunk cost and efficient local network and local milieu. So, the regional spatial structure is the result of two interactive forces, one is the global force which come from foreign TNCs and FDI lead to the economic activity diffused, the other is the local force which come from regional economic base and local milieu lead to industrial cluster. At last, we sum up two main trends of regional economy restructuring under economic globalization. On the one side, the spatial relation of production activity will tend to be network in global. On the other side, the distribution of economic activity is uneven. However, the recent researching result only talk about the change of spatial structure on the scale of world or the allocation of single industry, which seldom tough on how the global force and local force interact and change the spatial structure of one special area. All of these need advanced researching.

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