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The Impacts of the Social Network on China Identity of the Korean Chinese in South Korea 2016, (3): 12-20.  Abstract ( )   PDF (472KB) ( )   Many studies show that national identity changes when people enter another country. It is because they are involved in new social situations. This is a foregone conclusion. What people want to know is what impact national identity and what are the mechanisms that contribute to changing identities. One’s national identity is influenced by many factors. To understand this complex issue, scholars need to investigate the mechanism behind those changes and deconstructing it. The Korean Chinese in South Korea are interviewed in this study. A general analytical framework was designed for this case study. It considers geographical characteristics of social networks as independent variables and the home country identity as the dependent variable. The major objective is to investigate changes in a Chinese identity to a Korean Chinese identity in South Korea. We conclude that the Korean Chinese in South Korea are gradually tightening their economic relationships and ties with China. The networks of their family and kinship has still include both China and South Korea, as they have since the early of 1990’s when the first tide of Chinese entered South Korea. The international influence of China improved when more Korean Chinese began to also enter other countries in the past decades. All of these developments enhance the Chinese identity of the Korean Chinese in South Korea. A geographical perspective aids in analyzing the changing national identity. The identity of the immigration country and emigration country is to be compared in the future. Related Articles | Metrics

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From Software Outsourcing to R&D Service: A Case Study of Bangalore 2016, (3): 21-29.  Abstract ( )   PDF (469KB) ( )   Since 2000, India’s outsourcing industry is moving from a low technology service supplier to a high technology R&D Service supplier. Which factor results in the success for the upgrading of India’s outsourcing industry becomes an important issue we need to study. Bangalore is the birthplace of Indian software exports, and also becomes more and more professional in R&D Service. Because of that, this paper takes Bangalore as a case study, trying to sum up the four key factors for the rising of India’s R&D service industry by reviewing the developing process of Bangalore’s R&D Service Industry based on the theory of global value chain as follows: the low-cost supply of high quality personnel, the changes of global R&D strategy of multinationals, the improvement of local research and management capacity and the full use of overseas personal network. Related Articles | Metrics

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Spatial Pattern Evolution of Annual Average PM2.5 Concentration in Africa, 2001-2010 2016, (3): 30-39.  Abstract ( )   PDF (590KB) ( )   Based on NASA’s global annual average PM2.5 grids, by vectoring the administrative boundaries of African countries, calculating the average concentration of atmospheric PM2.5 of all countries and building the spatial database, using gravity model, ESDA model and GIS spatial statistical analysis method, we explore the space-time pattern evolution of the atmospheric PM2.5 pollution concentration of 52 main African countries from 2001 to 2010. According to their time series features, we classify them into 8 types. The results show that: (1) The concentration of atmospheric PM2.5 pollution in Africa generally shows the spatial characteristics of "middle high, north and south low; west high, east low" during 2001 to 2010. High concentration areas such as Nigeria, Congo and Cameroon, are mainly concentrated in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, and low concentration areas are widely distributed in North Africa, Southern Africa and coastal areas or islands of Southeast Africa. (2) Using spatial autocorrelation analysis method based on ESDA Model, we find that "High-High" type areas of PM2.5 concentrations are mainly distributed in the major countries near Gulf of Guinea, and that "Low-Low" type areas of PM2.5 concentrations are concentrated in the countries of Southeast Africa such as South Africa, Mozambique and Madagascar. (3) The average annual PM2.5 concentrations in Africa decreased obviously from 2001 to 2010. Average annual PM2.5 pollution concentrations of 32 counties (accounted for 61.54% of total) in 2010 were lower than in 2001. (4) Due to theirs high population density and dependence on the oil industry, countries near Gulf of Guinea are the areas with the highest PM2.5 concentration in Africa. On the contrary, the average PM2.5 concentrations of Southeast Africa is the lowest, thanks to their natural environment and low-pollution pillar industries. Related Articles | Metrics

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Singapore’s development of innovative city and their inspirations for Shanghai 2016, (3): 40-48.  Abstract ( )   PDF (567KB) ( )   As one of the Asian Tigers, Singapore rethought its strategies for economic after the Asian Financial Crisis and began to develop knowledge-based economy. In recent years, the government introduced a series of measures and facilitated Singapore’s innovation by attaching great importance to the innovative development of manufacturing and services, encouraging entrepreneurship, creating innovation environment, cultivating and introducing the talents, mo tivating the researchers in technology transfer, creating platform for innovation and improving local innovative capability. Singapore has turned into a knowledge-based innovative city and became the innovative hub of Southeast Asia, the experience of its development is instructive to Shanghai who is preparing to build innovation centre. Based on analyzed Singapore’s background of innovative city, the article discussed its policies, in order to provide a reference for Shanghai. Related Articles | Metrics

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Analysis of the Geopolitical Situation of the Grand Northern Onshore China 2016, (3): 59-68.  Abstract ( )   PDF (632KB) ( )   The domestic studies on China's geopolitics in recent years can be roughly divided into two categories: the one focuses on international politics to study China's outward-geopolitical situation, the other is rooted in military geography to study China's inward-geopolitical situation. According to the second approach and based on the historical and geographical perspective of traditional struggles among land powers, that the geopolitical situation of the grand northern onshore China can be divided into five parts—a core region, an upstream belt, four corridor belts, seven significant regions and two pivot regions, Among them, the Nanyang-Jianghan significant region and the Shanxi pivot region play a vital role in the whole China’s geopolitical situation, in additions, there are many important relations between the upstream belt, the Northeast significant region, the Xinjinag significant region and China’ outward-geopolitical situation. Related Articles | Metrics

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the Development of Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Based on the Metropolitan Area 2016, (3): 80-87.  Abstract ( )   PDF (673KB) ( )   At first, the article defined the concept of metropolitan areas and urban agglomeration, emphasized that the urban agglomeration are based on metropolitan areas. Furthermore, using the nearly two censuses and the regional economic statistical yearbook of 2011 in china, carried out empirical research in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Anhui four provinces of the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River. The results show that there are 22 metropolitan areas in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River region in 2010, there are 20 metropolitan areas in 2000. The Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River consists of four small Urban Agglomerations, it is a cross axial along the Northeast southwest and northwest southeast, it is scattered overall and concentrated locally. Finally, according to the characteristics , we put forward four suggestions to develop the Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River. Related Articles | Metrics

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Development Trend Estimation of Resident Population in Shanghai Based on Working-age Population Scenario Simulation 2016, (3): 88-98.  Abstract ( )   PDF (839KB) ( )   The rapid development of large cities at home and abroad in a large extent depends on the adequate supply of labor, and it is crucial for these cities to develop suitable population development strategies and policies. This paper presents a method used to making scenario simulation of population growth, which is based on Cohort component projection model and innovatively takes working-age population as a crucial variable, and then, to estimate the development trend of resident population in Shanghai. Results show that the population of migrant working-age will play an important role in Shanghai’s future development; therefore, immigration population of Shanghai should be given more attention and affirmation. This method is not only applicable for megacities which share characteristics with Shanghai in population age structure and growth trends, but also has suggestive meanings for smaller cities. Related Articles | Metrics

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Research on the tourism space structure of the Bohai sea ring area on the point axis theory 2016, (3): 99-105.  Abstract ( )   PDF (732KB) ( )   The Bohai Rim is a key development zone in China, consisting of 157 cities, a quarter of its cities, covering an area of 1.12 million square kilometers, 13.31% of its territory and having a population of 0.26 billion, 22.2% of its population. With convenient traffic, high income per capita, rich and diverse tourism resources, Bohai Rim a?tourism area?composing of natural landscape, integrating hills, springs, forests, rivers and lakes, and artificial landscape, combining ancient civilizations with modern art. Pole-axis theory has important guiding significance for the development of tourist regions.Using Location Quotient,City Flow and index of central functions, the profile of Bohai Rim is analyzed theoretically. Based on this, its important development nodes of four ranks, tourism development axis of three ranks and four tourist regions are indentified to construct the point-line-spatial regional tourism space structure to construct reasonable space structure to promote the development of the region to?drive the development of tourism industry of its own cities. Related Articles | Metrics

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Study on Spatial Organization of Petrochemical Industry in Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of Yangtze River: Situation, Mechanism and Path 2016, (3): 106-114.  Abstract ( )   PDF (780KB) ( )   Petrochemical industry is an important industry of national economy, and under current situation of domestic large-scale development of petrochemical industry, it is necessary to study its spatial organization deeply. Based on the distribution of petrochemical industry in urban agglomeration in the middle reach of Yangtze River, in order to investigate the spatial organization, this article analyzes its influential mechanism, problems valuation and developmental path through the space clustering, linear regression and other mathematical tools. Results show that the concentration degree of petrochemical industry is not high, as well as its development level in urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of Yangtze River. So the urban agglomeration needs to cultivate and expand industrial cluster to promote the reasonable layout production factors and strengthen the industrial competitiveness to speed up the urbanization. Related Articles | Metrics

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Study on the Spatial Distribution of the Industrial Structure Upgrading in the less Developed Regions of Guangdong Province——Based on 2001-2013 Time Series Data 2016, (3): 115-124.  Abstract ( )   PDF (843KB) ( )   Industrial structure upgrading is an important symbol of economic leap development in the less developed regional. By quantitative analysis of annual rate of industrial structure, the direction and the benefits using the More Value, Lilien Index, Industrial Structure Advance Coefficient, Deviation and Convergence Index method on the data of 2001-2013 of the less developed regions of Guangdong province, the overall characteristics of industrial structure upgrading with a relatively rapid rate since 2000, the main direction to the two or three industry, labor-intensive industry, not enough industry coordination, the convergence of industrial structure ,and the existence of such spatial differences, in the industrial upgrading rate of eastern Guangdong faster than western Guangdong, northern Guangdong, in the direction of upgrading of eastern Guangdong Second industry leading, western Guangdong and northern Guangdong two or three industrial advance; eastern Guangdong, northern Guangdong resource intensive industries and western Guangdong labor-intensive industry advance, in the upgrade benefits of western Guangdong better than northern Guangdong, eastern Guangdong, and so on, are found. Related Articles | Metrics

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Research Progress of the Interactive Mechanism between Industrial Transfer and Innovation Ability 2016, (3): 133-141.  Abstract ( )   PDF (735KB) ( )   On the basis of the theoretical analysis of research between the industrial transfer and the technology innovation of undertaking, the impact of innovation ability on the industry transfer ,the role of international industrial transfer on innovation investment, the effect of international industrial transfer on the innovation output of different levels, such as country, province, industry, enterprise, etc,the effect of international industrial transfer on innovation performance,and research on the technological innovation effect of domestic industry transfer to undertaking is studied.It is believed that the research should be the direction of future research: to strengthen the research on the technology innovation effect of new round of industry transfer, and to analyze the technological innovation effect of the new round of industrial transfer from the national and provincial and cities, and to strengthen the dynamic research on the innovation effect of industry transfer technology, and From the characteristics of economic geography, a comprehensive analysis framework is set up to study the technological innovation mechanism of industrial transfer. Related Articles | Metrics

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A review of the literature on the impact of commuting on personal health in developed countries 2016, (3): 142-150.  Abstract ( )   PDF (770KB) ( )   With the rapid development of society, more and more attention has been paid to the health problems. Commuting, as an important part of the daily activities, is a key component of time use. In recent years, urban traffic is getting worse, the poor commuting situation has gradually become a threat to the health of people. Developed countries has paid attention to urban commuting issues at an earlier time, there has been a wealth of research about the effect of commuting on personal health. However, the domestic research on the impact of commuting on personal health is relatively lack. This paper reviews the foreign literatures about the commuting time, commuting distance and commuting mode on the personal health from three perspective including psychological health, physical health and health behaviors, in the hope that it will provide a new perspective to urban commuting research in China. Related Articles | Metrics

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The Construction and Tourist Perception of the Tourism Consumption SpaceA case study of Makye Ame Restaurant in Lhasa 2016, (3): 151-161.  Abstract ( )   PDF (872KB) ( )   With the “space turn” in social studies and the “cultural turn” in geography, urban consumption space has become a hot spot in the research of urban social and cultural geography; But in the process of Globalization, the localization is also rising quietly, the Makye Ame restaurant is the result of localization, and since its opening, it has been favored by Chinese and foreign tourists,it has formed a unique phenomenon of Makye Ame. What’s more, The previous studies are concerned about the global urban space. Based on this background, this paper focus on the localization space—Makye Ame restaurant form the operator’s space construction and the perception of tourists, two questions are discussed: how does the Makye Ame restaurant be constructed? how tourists perceive and interpret it ? This article mainly uses the qualitative research method. Firstly, the text and pictures about Makye Ame was collected through the Internet, then we analyzed these words and pictures based on the field survey to answer the first question we proposed. Secondly, we investigated 23 customers in the Makye Ame restaurant by using the sensory ethnography, the content analysis method was used to analyze the data of the interview.The result shows, the operators use various landscape symbols and celebrity anecdotes to construct and reconstruct the space to make it become a place full of exotic and stories. The consumption space is no longer pure space, it becomes the place full of stories. While the tourists obtained a profound consumption experience through the perception of the entity space and the celebrity anecdotes, and the perception of the restaurant’s functional value is poor, this shows that the tourism consumption also has a tendency of symbol consumption. Related Articles | Metrics

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Bibliometrical Analysis of Competitive Sitituation of International Environmental Migration 2016, (3): 162-169.  Abstract ( )   PDF (868KB) ( )   Environmental migration has been an emerging issue in aspects of ecology, environmentology and demography, under the growing population and increasing environmental stress. With the SCIE and SSCI database, Thomson Data Analyzer and UCINET were used to data mining and quantitatively analyze papers on environmental migration. The results show that: the number of research papers are growing as a whole; USA and its main research institutions dominate this field. China and Chinese Academy of Sciences published many papers on this topic, but, research quality and influence need enhancing. In the past three years, their research work is more active; USA, German and UK are located in more important places in the international scientific collaboration networks. China has a weak collaborative relationship with other countries and institution; Research priorities from the auto-correlation Map of keywords include ecological conversation, poverty alleviation, area of origin and resettlement, migration sociology issues and relavant policies. Related Articles | Metrics