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Measurement and interpretation of connectivity of Chinese cities in world city network, 2010 |
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| Authors: | Ben Derudder Peter J Taylor Michael Hoyler Pengfei Ni Xingjian Liu Miaoxi Zhao Wei Shen Frank Witlox |
| Institution: | 1604. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Gent, B9000, Belgium 2604. School of the Built and Natural Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle, NE1 8ST, UK 3604. Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK 4604. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 100732, China 5604. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB23EN, UK 6604. South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China 7604. ESSCA School of Management, Angers, 49000, France |
| Abstract: | This is an empirical paper that measures and interprets the position of Chinese cities in the world city network in 2010. Building on a specification of the world city network as a ‘interlocking network’ in which business services firms play the crucial role in city network formation, information is gathered about the presence of global service firms in cities. This information is converted into data to provide the ‘service value’ of a city for a firm’s provision of corporate services in a 526 (cities) × 175 (firms) matrix. These data are then used as the input to the interlocking network model in order to measure cities’ connectivity and its predominant geographical orientation. Here we focus on the position of some key Chinese cities in this regard, and discuss and interpret results in the context of the urban dimensions of the ‘opening up’ of the Chinese economy. |
| Keywords: | world city network advanced producer services Shanghai Hong Kong Beijing |
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