Abstract:

Hightech industry represents a countrys scientific and technological strength and promotes the economic development, which has brought to the attention of the countries and regions. This paper introduces a measure of the development level of hightech industry and analyzes the changes of provincial hightech industry development level between 2000 and 2010. The results show as follows. (1)The gap of development level on temporal evolution analysis of Chinese hightech industry continuously extends during two periods of 2000-2005 and 2005-2010. Data shows that the provinces staying in a high level have the more rapid development speed than that in low level, and provinces which keep in the high level are the real driving force of development of high tech industry in China. Although the overall level of provincial hightech industrial development is constantly moving forward, the differences between regions continue to expand and the phenomenon of the strong being stronger and the weak being weaker namely “Matthew Effect” gradually emerges. (2)The provinces development index of which stay at the higher level and a high level mainly concentrate in the eastern coastal province. Low level provinces except the Shaanxi are increasing, of which the agglomeration trends to the central and western regions. The geographical scope is expanding, it has strong spatial correlation and exists “club convergence” phenomenon. (3)Basic factors, economic factors, policy factors and other traditional factors on the early period of hightech industry development play the apparent role in promoting the development level. With the industrial development to a higher level and the gradual improvement of the policy environment, the effect of traditional factors is gradually flattening. However, the influence of gathering, human capital and other new emerging factors on hightech industries continue to strengthen and the role of location factors has been evident, which coincides the development characteristics of hightech industry.