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World Regional Studies ›› 2025, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (1): 82-93.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2025.01.20230082

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Analysis of the spatial structure and impacting factors of China's urban network based on E-sports

Xu ZHANG1(), Yunyang ZHU1, Jinliao HE2,3()   

  1. 1.School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
    2.The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies,
    3.The Institute of Urban Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • Received:2023-02-23 Revised:2023-06-05 Online:2025-01-15 Published:2025-02-07
  • Contact: Jinliao HE

基于电子竞技活动的中国城市网络空间结构与影响因素分析

张旭1(), 朱昀阳1, 何金廖2,3()   

  1. 1.武汉理工大学资源与环境工程学院,武汉 430070
    2.华东师范大学,中国现代城市研究中心,上海 200062
    3.华东师范大学,城市发展研究院,上海 200062
  • 通讯作者: 何金廖
  • 作者简介:张旭(1986—),男,副教授,博士,研究方向为城市网络与创意经济,E-mail:x.zhang86@hotmail.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金项目(42171214)

Abstract:

The rapid rise of digital economies has generated complex impacts on the spatial organization of economic activities, which has raised new issues for the research of urban networks. Taking the e-sports industry as a case, this paper investigates the spatial structure and impacting factors of China's urban network under the influence of the digital economy. It first collects information on the participating teams in the four major e-sports events in China from 2013 to 2022 to reveal the spatial structure of the e-sports-based urban network using the method of social network analysis. After that, the paper adopts the method of ridge regression analysis to explore the main factors affecting the geographic pattern of this inter-city network. The results of this study show that: 1) China's e-sports-based urban network generally shows a trend of continuous expansion, forming a "core-periphery" structure with Shanghai as the primary center and Beijing as the sub-center. The spatial diffusion of the urban network is relatively limited, whereas the proportion of inter-city connections is gradually increasing, which reflects the dual impacts of the digital economy on the organization of urban networks. 2) The connecting network between the cities where the events are held and the cities where the teams are located shows a relatively obvious hierarchical structure, while the connecting network between the cities where the teams are located shows a more evident trend of diffusion, indicating the divergent locational patterns of e-sports events and e-sports teams. 3) Local policies and urbanization economies are the main factors that shape the spatial structure of urban networks, while the impacts of localization economies and urban amenities are not obvious, reflecting the specialities of the e-sports industry in terms of its developmental stage and mechanism of talent generation in China. The results of this paper offer a new perspective for understanding the geographical reconstruction of urban networks in the context of digital economy, and also provide a reference for the formulation of urban digital economy development policies.

Key words: urban network, digital economy, E-sports, influencing factors, China

摘要:

数字经济的快速崛起对于经济活动的空间组织模式产生了复杂的影响,同时对城市网络研究提出新的议题。以电子竞技产业为例,通过对《英雄联盟》《Dota2》《CS:GO》《王者荣耀》四大电竞赛事2013—2022年参赛战队及选手信息的收集和整理,采用社会网络分析方法揭示基于电子竞技视角的中国城市网络空间结构特征,进而借助岭回归分析方法探索影响该城市网络地理格局的主要因素。研究结果表明:1)基于电子竞技活动的中国城市网络总体呈现出不断扩张的态势,形成了以上海为主中心、北京为次中心的“核心-边缘”结构;城市网络扩散范围相对有限,但是城市间联系占比不断上升,反映出数字经济对于城市网络空间组织的双重影响。2)“赛事举办城市-战队所在城市”联系网络呈现出较为明显的层级结构,参赛战队所在城市间的联系网络则呈现出更为明显的扩散趋势,反映出赛事活动举办和电竞战队组建的地理差异。3)地方政策和城市化经济是影响城市网络空间结构的主要因素,地方化经济和城市舒适性作用则并不明显,反映出电子竞技产业在发展阶段和人才生成机制方面的独特性。本文对于理解数字经济环境下城市网络的地理重构提供了新的视角,同时为城市数字经济发展政策的制定提供了参考。

关键词: 城市网络, 数字经济, 电子竞技, 影响因素, 中国