Abstract:

Since the policy of the development of the Yangtze River area was brought into effect in 2003,the manufacturing distribution among the development zones along the Yangtze River has been changed.Thus, based on the theory of new economic geography,using statistics data and questionnaire investigation,the authors quantitatively analyzed spatial division of manufacturing industry among 21 development zones 〖JP2〗along the Yangtze River,the agglomeration and transference of 9 manufacturing〖JP〗 industries with the methods of specialization coefficient and Gini coefficient.Result shows that:(1)From 2002 to 2006,the pattern of core of capital/technology intensive manufacturing industry in the south of the Yangtze River and the periphery of 〖JP2〗labour intensive manufacturing industry in the north of the Yangtze River is forming〖JP〗 by the former transferring the labour intensive manufacturing industry to the latter.(2) However,the homogeneity in the industry structure of inner development zones in the south or in the north still exists.(3) Because of the interaction among phrase of development zones,regional industrial policies,local supply of resources and market demand,it doesn't exist phenomenon of manufacturing agglomeration at large,exclusive textile and garment,petrochemical industry,electricity,plastics and rubber,which is different from hypothesis.

Key words: spatial division/manufacturing agglomeration/industrial transference/ specialization coefficient/Gini coefficient/development zone along Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province