Abstract:

Wuhan urban cluster is a city compact region with Wuhan as the center.The long history of industrial development of Wuhan can be divided into three periods：the first period (1840~1949) is the beginning stage，the second one (1949~1994) refers to that of industrial structure strengthening，and the last one (1994~) is that of the industry system adjustment.Correspondingly，the sectional structure and the spatial structure of the regional industry appear to be typically centralized.Taking the added value of the regional manufacture in 2003 as the target，the degree of the spatial configuration of Wuhan City is 50.5％，and the degree of industrial configuration of the top ten manufacturing is 60.6％.According to this，though an incompact economic federation nowadays，it has some foundations to integrate the industries，space and innovation.Based on the statistical data from 2001~2004 of the 9 cities in Wuhan cluster，with indicators of annual average valueadded and increment rate of manufacturing by industrial sector，and by means of calculating and analyzing its region industrial potential ability to develop，it is concluded that we can promote the development of special sectors with regional competitiveness through constructing industrial cluster networks based on iron and steel industry，automobile industry，and electric & communication equipment manufacturing，which can make full use of industrial organization and expand function of innovation in Wuhan City.It is necessary to promote effectively the development of special sectors with regional competitiveness by taking relative policies and measures such as consummating the cluster networks programming，strengthening the region space connection and leading the development of industrial convergenceetc.

Key words: Wuhan urban cluster, industrial development, spatial optimization, industrial cluster networks