Abstract:

The Belt and Road Initiative is of great significance for leading the process of economic globalization, deepening reform, and achieving overall transition. In this context, the western region and its urban governments have formulated related local policies, which have to varying degrees promoted transformation of local economy to be more open. Taking 51 prefecture-level cities (including autonomous prefecture and regions) of the five provinces in northwest China, as the research object, this article made quantification of the local policies, responding to the Belt and Road Initiative, from the three aspects, thus impact level, policy intensity, policy objectives and measures, made visual expression to analyze the overall characteristics of the policy responses to the Belt and Road Initiative that made by various prefecture-level cities, and made use of the classification of urban function method and other methods to classify the industrial policies. The results show that: (1) From 2013 to 2017, the mean value of cumulative score of the policy response made by urban governments, has increased from 0.0078 to 30.9951 and the response rate increased from 3.92% to100%. However, the gap in cumulative scores of policy responses among prefecture-level cities is more distinct. By 2017, the arrangement has formed that Shaanxi and Gansu provinces are the core response areas, Ningxia and Xinjiang provinces are the secondary response areas, and Qinghai province is the edge response area. The policy response primarily concentrates on industries like water conservancy, environment, public facilities management, culture, sports, entertainment, transportation, warehousing, postal, tourism and manufacturing. Moreover, the types of industries that respond to the policies have increased yearly, and the policy center of industries is in a multi-polar tendency. (2) In 2017, the number of the prefecture-level cities with comprehensive, transitional as well as single industrial policies is thirty-eight, six and seven respectively. The high-profile industrial policies mainly center on the secondary and the tertiary industries: The secondary industry is dominated by manufacturing and centered in Shanxi and Gansu provinces, but Shanxi Province is more focused on medium and high-end industries. The tertiary industry is distributed in all provinces (districts), but it has significant spatial heterogeneity. For example, Shanxi Province attaches greater importance to the scientific research and technical services, financial industry and so on, but Gansu Province to the tourism. Combined the comprehensive/single discrimination with the prominent industrial policy discrimination, the types of industrial policies could be divided into six categories in detail, and the comprehensive prefecture-level cities with outstanding industrial policies are the largest in number, which is twenty-five, accounting for 49.02%. However, the number of transitional prefecture-level cities with outstanding industrial policies, single prefecture-level cities with outstanding industrial policies and transitional prefecture-level cities without outstanding industrial policies is the least. The number is equally three, each accounting for 5.88%.

Key words: the Belt and Road Initiative, policy responses, temporal and spatial features, industrial policy, five northwestern provinces (districts)

摘要：

“一带一路”倡议对于引领经济全球化进程、深化改革开放、实现全面转型有重大意义。西部地区及其城市政府据此制定了相关的政策，不同程度地推动了地方经济转型及其开放度。以西北五省51个地级市（含自治州、地区）为研究对象，运用城市职能分类法等方法，对其响应“一带一路”倡议的地方政策进行分析。研究表明：1）2013~2017年，城市政府的平均政策响应累计得分持续增加，应答率由3.92%增加至100%。进行政策响应的产业种类逐年增多，且产业政策重心有多极化趋势。2）2017年，综合性、过渡性、单一性产业政策地级市分别为38个、6个、7个。突出产业政策主要分布在陕、甘两省，以第二、第三产业为主。产业政策类型可详细划分为6类，具有突出产业政策的综合性地级市数目最多，为25个，占比49.02%。

关键词: “一带一路”倡议, 政策响应, 时空特征, 产业政策, 西北五省（区）