Abstract:

The economic zone of the western coast of taiwan strait,including 20 cities in Fujian,Zhejiang,Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces,goes through with three stages,which are proposing,development and formation.After analyzing the development and regional significance of economic zone of the western coast of Taiwan strait,the gravity model was used to research into the intensity of economic linkages in the 20 cities of the economic zone of the western coast of Taiwan straits,and the results was shown in thematic map with the support of GIS software Mapinfo 90.The study indicated that the coastal axis of development,in the east of the economic zone is formed by two city groups with strong economic links between their“dual cores”,while city multilevel system is formed by“subgrowth cores”in the middle and western economic zone,and the former had a stronger radiation to the latter.The degree of economic linkages within the region from the coast to the inland areas showed an attenuation with the distance increase,and the linkages among the cities in the west are relativly weak,and regional natural and geographical conditions and the cost of transportation were the main hercynian barriers to the urban economic linkages