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    China's geopolitical strategy on the way to the great rejuvenation: The National Neighborland Theory
    Zhiding HU, Yuejing GE, Debin DU, Yuli LIU
    2021, 30(3): 443-453.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2021165
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    With the rise of critical geopolitics, the debate about classical geostrategic theory once became the focus of academic research. The proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative also stirred debate on whether One Belt One Road is China's current global geopolitical strategy. The Covid-19 superimposed on the great decoupling between China and the United States, makes it extremely urgent for China to adjust and formulate a new geostrategy in line with the current overall geo-environmental situation. This is related to the realization of the two centenary goals and national rejuvenation. This paper attempts to reinterpret classical geopolitics, by borrowing the concept of intersubjectivity from philosophy and the research results on intersubjectivity in a variety of specific philosophical morphologies. After summing up the inherent characteristics of classical geopolitics, this paper proceeds to refute the view which holds that China's Belt and Road initiative is its geostrategy. Instead, it analyzes global geo-environment, Sino-American relations and China's geo-environment in the implicit framework constructed by classical geopolitical strategy, and proposes China's geopolitical strategy in the first half of this century called the National Neighborland Theory. However, we should recognize that for both China and the United States, continued confrontation in the Chinese periphery or, worse still, conflicts on a global scale is detrimental to both parties and even the world. Both nations must step out of the intersubjective consensus taking shape in the long course of history that all powers are bound to seek hegemony. Moreover, they shall step further into a virtuous circle of mutual interaction via dialogs and exchanges, so as to terminate conflicts in today's world for the sake of peaceful development, and to construct a community of shared future for mankind.

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    The spatial evolution of China's foreign aid
    Jianmei HU, Jie HAO, Yibo ZHANG, Chao ZHANG
    2021, 30(3): 454-464.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019552
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    Foreign aid is an important carrier of a country's geopolitics and economy and a significant tool for UN Sustainable Development Goals. The spatial evolution of China's foreign aid reflects the changing process of China's international status and world responsibility under the background of the rise of great powers. This paper studies the sectoral, time and regional characteristics of China's foreign aid. Since the first Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2000, the scale and proportion of debt relief in China's foreign aid have increased significantly, and since the Belt and Road Initiative was launched in 2013, China has significantly increased its assistance to economic infrastructure and services. Regionally, economic infrastructure and services have increased to the north and eastern coasts African countries, social infrastructure and services have increased to sub-Saharan African countries, and debt relief has more fully covered the priority recipient countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Chinese foreign aid covers most of the under developing countries around the world. The center for gravity of Chinese foreign aid gradually shifted from southeast to northwest, reflecting the change in China's foreign aid strategy. China's foreign aid follows the concept of "South-South Cooperation" and belongs to the East Asia Model. Domestic scholars in development geography should reinforce theoretical and epistemological research in Chinese foreign aid.

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    The effect and mediating path of the "Belt & Road Initiative" (BRI) on the economic growth of BRI countries
    Peiping GONG, Chao JIANG
    2021, 30(3): 465-477.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2020004
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    A scientific assessment of the effect and mediating paths of the "Belt and Road Initiative"(BRI) on the economic growth of the Belt and Road (B&R) countries is of great guiding significance to optimize the international cooperation mode, enhance the sense of gain for people in the B&R countries, and promote the transformation of BRI construction to high-quality development in the future. Based on relevant data for the 64 B&R countries during 2003-2017, using fixed effect panel model and mediation effect test, this article empirically tested the effects of the BRI on the economic growth and analyzed relationships among the mediating variables including foreign direct investment, import and export trade, transportation, and employment. Results show that the BRI construction could significantly promote the economic growth of the B&R countries,by promoting the import and export trade between China and the B&R countries,especially China's export trade, which had a significant and positive impact on flow of goods and resources, the employment rate of the population aged more than 15 and the employment structure. As for the mediating path consisting of the BRI, China's export trade, and economic growth of the B&R countries, it might be due to development stage of the BRI and characteristics of the Chinese enterprises invested in the B&R countries. At early stage of the BRI, the Chinese enterprise would like to import relevant machinery and equipment from China in order to complete the infrastructure constructions as soon as possible. The trade between China and the B&R countries had significantly increased the number of employees in the service industry. Another interesting finding is that the outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from China did not have a significant impact on the economic growth of the B&R countries. The main reason for explaining this effect may be that in the early stage of the BRI, the OFDI from China was mainly used for infrastructure constructions, such as the highways, industrial parks and factory buildings, which had not been put into use.

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    Land cover changes and their driving forces in Myanmar based on GlobeLand30
    Cansong LI, Jun CHEN, Yuejing GE, Lijun CHEN, Weiwei ZHANG, Yushuo ZHANG, Yabo ZHAO
    2021, 30(3): 478-489.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019347
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    Influenced by domestic situations in Myanmar, restricted by international environment, along with insufficient information materials of middle or high-resolution land cover product, the researches on Myanmar's geographical environment undertaken by outside world are extremely few and the understanding of land cover change and relevant driving factors are especially in great scarcity. This article utilizes GlobeLand30 which is the first global 30m land cover product developed by China, initially analyzes space variations of national land cover in Myanmar from 2000 to 2010 with combination of social and economic statistical data and comprehensively researches on driving factors of land-surface coverage change in aspects of policy regulation and control, political environment, economic development, and ethnic culture etc. Researches have shown that, in recent ten years, Myanmar's land cover have undertaken great changes, spatial and temporal disparities were remarkably, which are concretely manifested below: (1)The Forest has an increase in eastern region and a decrease in western region with a rapid increase of total quantities. The newly-increased Forest started to be concentrated in southeastern and northeastern regions and shows a tendency of consistent growth. Southeast regions of Myanmar adjoining "Golden Triangle" and each states of Tenasserim Coast become Forest high-speed growth areas; (2) The Cultivated land with the national scope decreases and the concentration in Irrawaddy River valley area is still remarkable. Western region of middle and lower reaches of Irrawaddy River and Shan-State Cultivated land have the largest reductions. Forest and Artificial surface are remarkably occupied. Agricultural franchise and substitute plantation extort significant influence; (3) Artificial surface increases rapidly, which takes Irrawaddy River Delta as the core and spreads to middle stream of river valley and eastern region. The Shan-ethnicity regions and Bamar-ethnicity regions which have relative dense population become Artificial surface high-speed growth areas; (4) The natural disasters within ten years exert great influence on earth-surface coverage in southern region. However, agricultural policy, political pattern, economic force are main driving factors. And utilization of GlobeLand30 combining Burmese socio-economic data can improve the accuracy of its land-category statistics.

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    Development pattern, gradient transfer and emission reduction of China's overseas wind power projects: Based on priority projects in China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
    Mengyao HAN, Weidong LIU, Hui LIU
    2021, 30(3): 490-500.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019705
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    As the representative and typical items, the wind power projects in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor have gradually emerged. Among China's investment in Pakistan, the wind power priority projects involved 647 million US dollars, the related electricity generation could reach nearly 18 billion kWh during the operation period, and the cumulative carbon emission reduction could reach 13.90 Mt. Beyond the gradient transfer along with the overseas projects, the successful implementation of China's renewable energy projects mainly depended on the institutional policy framework, development & operation models, equipment supplying systems, and electricity acquisition agreements in the host countries. China's wind power investment could thus help implement renewable energy policies, accelerate renewable energy development, mitigate carbon emissions, and achieve the intendedly determined emission reduction, which is expected to further promote and support the following renewable energy projects during the green Belt and Road construction.

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    Decoupling analysis between energy consumption and economic growth in BRICS countries: Based on Tapio decoupling and LMDI model analysis
    Jie WANG, Zhiguo LI, Jijian GU
    2021, 30(3): 501-508.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019470
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    Based on BRICS carbon emission panel data in 1987-2017, Tapio index model was used to analyze the decoupling relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions, and combines IPAT equation and LMDI model were used to decompose driving factors affecting carbon emissions. Result showed that BRICS countries generally showed a trend of decoupling from weak decoupling to strong decoupling.Decoupling relationships of carbon emissions in China, India and Russia were weak decoupling, while that of South Africa and Brazil were strong and expansion negative decoupling. Economic strength and population factor were main positive drivers of carbon emissions, and energy intensity factor had a restraining effect on carbon emissions. Therefore, increasing technology input, improving energy efficiency and strictly controlling high-energy consumption industries is vital for emission reduction work.

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    Research on spatial pattern characteristic and disparity of tourism resource and inbound tourism along the Silk Road Economic Belt
    Jianjun SU, Li GUAN, Yu ZHANG
    2021, 30(3): 509-519.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019701
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    Based on the theory of spatial mismatch, using tourism resource abundance index, and 2D matrix method, the papers analyzes and compares the tourism resource degree, inbound tourism quality, and their spatial pattern character and disparity among eighteen countries in the Silk Road Economic Belt. The main results are followed: Firstly, the quantity and quality of tourism resource are clearly polarized along the Silk Road Economic Belt, Western Europe is the best, such as Germany, UK, Italy and France, they have many tourism resource of various types and high quality, and Central Asia is the weakest including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Because their tourism resources are single, there are relatively few opportunities for tourism cooperation between countries in Central Asia. Inbound tourism development quality also shows similar characteristics. Secondly, from the two dimensional matrix, tourism resource distribution and inbound tourism quality show a weaker coordination trend, and the typical characteristic is that the tourism resource concentration is slightly higher than that of the inbound tourism development. The accumulation of tourism resource has obvious international tourism orientation, and more than two-thirds of the countries occurred mismatch in the Silk Road Economic Belt, among them the countries where the occurred mismatch ar those in Central Europe and Western Asia. Russia and India obviously occur mismatch, but Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan do not occur mismatch. Inbound tourism level needs to be improved in high mismatch countries. At last, spatial consistency characteristic is significantly regional difference in four areas. It always shows that tourism resource concentration is higher than that of the inbound tourism. Asia is relatively the best, Central Europe is better and Eastern Europe is the worst.Suggestions are as follows: to firm the development concept of "interconnection, equality, tolerance, cooperation and win-win"; to establish an international tourism cooperation alliance, supervise and implement relevant strategic deployment and key projects; to build a sharing mechanism based on seeking common ground while shelving differences, substantially improve the level of tourism cooperation and integration between countries and degree of coordinated development; to create world-class tourism routes and tourism resource famous brands in Silk Road Economic Belt, and enhance the influence and level of international tourism development.

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    Research on the spatial pattern of population agglomeration and dispersion in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region from a multidimensional perspective
    Ting YUAN, Weidong¹ CAO, Mingxing CHEN, Wei QI
    2021, 30(3): 520-532.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019630
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    In the process of urbanization, population agglomeration and dispersion is the fundamental driving force for the evolution of regional spatial structure.Based on data of the fourth, fifth and sixth population census and population sampling data in 2015, this paper analyzes spatial distribution characteristics and collection trend of the population in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the past 25 years from a multi-dimensional perspective. Results show that:①The overall population distribution of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is still densely populated in the southwest and sparsely in the northeast.The geographical concentration of population along the main traffic line is higher. From 1990 to 2015, the number difference between districts and counties was intensified. And there was a strong spatial correlation: the distribution of population hot spots presented a "T" shaped structure with Beijing, Tianjin and coastal areas as the axis, while the cold spots slightly expanded into a "C" shaped structure.②From 1990 to 2015, the population space of Beijing and Tianjin showed obvious "core-edge" characteristics. Population of all cities in Hebei Province is concentrated in municipal districts, and the loss of population in surrounding districts and counties increases gradually.③From perspective of comprehensive city scale grade and administrative grade, city scale is linked to the administrative grade.The higher the city administrative grade is, the larger population scale will be, and the stronger population agglomeration ability will be. From perspective of main functional zoning, population share of development zones is increasing while that of ecological functional zones is decreasing. In the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the population gathering and sparse space has changed since 2010, and tendency to gather in coastal areas is prominent, showing a significant maritime presence.

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    Research on spatial conflict calculation and zoning optimization of land use in Nanchang City from the perspective of "three living spaces"
    Zhu'an CHEN, Xiangrui FENG, Zhiqiang HONG, Binbin MA, Yijia LI
    2021, 30(3): 533-545.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019676
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    Based on the guiding function of land use,the 20 land use types of Nanchang in 1995, 2005 and 2015 are divided into ecological-production space, production-ecological space, ecological space and living-production space.The conflict model is constructed by using three factors: spatial complexity index, spatial vulnerability index and spatial stability.Drawing on the inverted "U" model, the spatial conflict is divided into four categories: stable controllable, basic controllable, basic uncontrollable and severe uncontrollable.On the basis of conflict level, 10 sub-functional spaces will be established to optimize land resources, alleviate space conflicts and achieve sustainable development by using measures such as optimizing industrial structure and ecosystem restoration.The results show that :(1)the pattern of ecological-production-living spaces in Nanchang from 1995 to 2015 is dominated by production ecological space, followed by ecological space and ecological-production space, living-production space. The proportion of living-production space is increasing, while the rest is decreasing, showing the characteristics of "one rising and three falling".(2)From 1995 to 2015, the spatial conflict of ecological-production-living space in Nanchang became more and more intense, and the seriously out-of-control unit continued to grow. However, the growth rate from 2005 to 2015 was slightly slower than that from 1995 to 2005.(3)There are large difference between different types of spatial conflict, all give priority to with controllable level, which is out of control level from big to small: living-production space ?production-ecological space ? ecological-production space ?ecological space ;(4)More than 70% of the areas in Nanchang are optimized by using 10 sub-functional spaces, of which more than 70% of the sub-functional spaces, such as urban land, are permitted to be built, and more than 65% of the sub-functional areas, such as beaches, lakes and woodlands, are prohibited from construction, in line with the general land use plan.

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    Accessibility analysis of children's service facilities at community scale in Beijing
    Yangyang XIE, Li CHEN, Aihua ZHOU, Jingxue XU
    2021, 30(3): 546-555.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019548
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    Children service facilities are important components of building children-friendly city.Based on community populationand children's service facilities data in Beijing, this paper analyzes spatial distribution and pattern of city's accessibility to children's service facilities through two-step mobile search method, using community as basic research unit.Result shows that accessibility level of different types of children's service facilities varies greatly. The spatial accessibility level of primary schools is better than that of kindergartens in the 1000m threshold range, and accessibility of pediatric clinics is better than that of parks in the 3000m threshold range.Influenced by distribution of children's population and service facilities, accessibility of primary schools, kindergartens and pediatric clinics presents the distribution pattern of "high in center, low in suburb",which is unbalanced in space.Distribution of parks is relatively dispersed, and accessibility of marginal areas is better than that of central areas. The accessibility of children's service facilities in Beijing can be divided into five types, and the organization of which reflects spatial attributes of concentric circles and sectors patterns at the same time. Accordingly, this paper puts forward strategies for improving children's service facilities in different regions.

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    Study on the coupling and coordination relationship of urban land use benefit in urban agglomeration on the west coast of Taiwan Strait
    Jihui LIAO, Xianwei PENG, Quan WANG, Ping JIAN, Qingting WU
    2021, 30(3): 556-566.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019520
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    It is of great significance to explore how to improve the comprehensive benefits of land use so as to realize sustainable development of regional land use. In this paper, a land use benefit evaluation index system is constructed from three subsystems of economic, social and ecological environmental benefits. The entropy method is used to explore the land use benefits of urban agglomeration on the west coast of the strait from 2008 to 2017, as well as its spatio-temporal evolution process and coupling and coordination relationship, so as to further identify the main factors that limit the improvement of coupling and coordination relationship among cities. Results show that, in the west coast urban agglomeration, high benefit units of comprehensive benefit of land use are mainly located in the center of the coastal gateway cities and city, and tend to be gathered, low units mainly gathered in the inland city and the southern coastal cities, and over the studying period, the number of low units had been shrinking. The economic benefits, social benefits and ecological benefit of urban land use showed continuous rise over time. The spatial patterns of the benefits were "high in the middle, and low in the west".The coupling and coordination degree of "economic-social-ecological environment" benefits of land use showed a trend of different degrees of growth. In recent years, the coupling and coordination degree had been increased, but the spatial heterogeneity of decreasing had shifted from coastal cities to inland cities, and the coupling and coordination development of land use is mainly restricted by complex factors.

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    Study on spatial accessibility of road network in Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone
    Yan XIAO, Zaichao ZOU, Qingchun LIU
    2021, 30(3): 567-576.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019698
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    Accessibility is a comprehensive and intuitive evaluation index in traffic network, and it had been widely applied to urban planning, spatial structure, regional economic development and many other fields. Taking Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone as an example, we obtain a series of traffic integrations and the same time circle data based on geometry and network analysis algorithm. The proposed models are then applied to examine the spatial structural properties of the road network of Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone. The results are shown as follows: (1) the system of road network is better and the concentration of road network is obvious. The spatial pattern of segment type stretches along the "point-axis" style while the spatial pattern of axis type stretches along the "trunk-branch "shape. This formed the interconnection between the core ring and the outer ring within the region. (2) Urban accessibility, to a great extent, depends on the regional geometric Centre and the development level of the surrounding road network. Because the core position of Qingdao and Weifang city in the whole area, their accessibility and the control effect on the regional road network is more prominent.Key words: spatial accessibility; road network; space syntax; Shandong peninsula Blue Economic Zone

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    The impact of "Internet +" on the manufacturing employment in China
    Mengran XU, Zhenfa LI, Canfei HE, Wei LI
    2021, 30(3): 577-588.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2020225
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    Based on the annual survey of industrial firms and the data of Alibaba, this paper studies the impact of "Internet +" on the manufacturing employment growth at both firm and industry levels. Empirical results suggest that "Internet +" promotes the employment growth of large enterprises but hinders that of small and micro enterprises. As the number of enterprises which utilize this kind of new technology rises, employment growth of the whole industry slows down. In addition, the dynamic externalities of industrial agglomeration including industrial specialization, industrial diversity and industrial competition can boost firm-level and industry-level employment growth, but both the industrial specialization and the industrial competition make it difficult for "Internet +" to play a positive role in driving industry-level employment growth. Besides, the impacts of "Internet +" and the industrial agglomeration on the employment growth are different among districts.

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    The spatio-temporal evolution of industrial resilience and its driving factors in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration
    Feiyu LU, Weihua YIN, Nannan LIU
    2021, 30(3): 589-600.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019717
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    Industry is an important support for building the development strategic advantages of China in the future. Against the background of increasing uncertainty of the world economy, it is of urgent practical significance to improve the spatial-temporal evolution of industrial resilience development and clarify the impact mechanisms of industrial resilience. Based on the evaluation of industrial resilience by the catastrophe progression model, this paper discusses the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics and driving factors of industrial resilience in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration (YRDUA) by using kernel density estimation, Theil entropy index and Tobit spatial lag panel regression model. The results show that:(1)The industrial resilience of most cities in the YRDUA has significantly improved, reaching the medium-high level on the whole. The regional gap of industrial resilience in the YRDUA is narrowing, but there still exists the multi-level 'core-periphery' differentiation pattern at the overall level and the inner metropolitan level.(2)The industrial resilience of central cities with strong comprehensive strength has a significant spatial spillover effect. Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Hefei and Ningbo making close intra-industry connections with their neighboring cities have formed agglomeration of high-level industrial resilience.(3)Industrial structure is the main factor affecting the industrial resilience of the YRDUA. In addition, regional financial environment, government public services and regional dependence on foreign trade all have significant impacts on industrial resilience to varying degrees.

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    Characteristics of China's service industry agglomeration:Based on county data from the fifth and sixth censuses
    Meng WANG, Qinmei WANG
    2021, 30(3): 601-610.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019491
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    Based on the data of counties in the national census, this paper uses Gini coefficient to describe the characteristics of service industry agglomeration of China in 2010. At the national level the Gini coefficient of service industry as a whole is 0.52, and the degree of agglomeration is moderate; in terms of grouping, producer service, consumer service and public service are in order from high to low; all service industries show agglomeration, and the agglomeration degree of some service industries is even higher than that of manufacturing industry; from 2000 to 2010, the agglomeration degree of producer service industry and consumer service industry has increased or decreased, while the agglomeration degree of public service industry has a weakening trend. In addition, at the three regional levels, the service industry agglomeration degree in the west is the highest, in the middle lowest, and in the east in the middle level; at the provincial level, the service industry agglomeration degree is lower than that at the national level, and some service industries are even non-agglomeration, but there are still service industries which belong to high agglomeration. This article provides basic data support for theoretical research and policy formulation of China's service industry.

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    The definition, theoretical basis of the blue economic channel and China's path to safeguard the blue economic channel
    Jiarui LIANG, Cuihong MA
    2021, 30(3): 611-619.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2020057
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    Different from maritime transportation lines and maritime strategic channels, the blue economic channel has multi-level meanings such as security, politics, economy, geography, and culture. It is committed to the sustainable use of marine resources and the sustainable development of mankind. Small island developing States and coastal least developed countries are a large maritime channel and a platform for maritime cooperation, rather than a specific transportation line, throat, strategic island near a strait or maritime transportation line. The connotation of the blue economic channel and the maritime cooperation platform determines its theoretical basis. Compound interdependence theory, global ocean governance theory, and geographical environment theory are its theoretical foundations. The security dimension is the most basic connotation of the blue economic channel. Maintaining maritime security is an important guarantee for the development of a blue economy.

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    Spatial-temporal pattern of the coordinated development of ecology-culture-tourism of China's provinces
    Yaoyan JIA, Jing HU, Dajun LIU, Lei ZHU, Yajuan LI
    2021, 30(3): 620-631.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019559
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    Drawing on the existing research, this paper constructs the eco-culture-tourism coordinated development mechanism based on the interaction between eco-culture and tourism, and builds an indicator system based on the development mechanism and the principles of science, time series and data availability. The indicator system has 7 first-level indicators and 25 second-level indicators. On the one hand, the weighted average method is used to measure the ecological, cultural and tourism development levels of 31 provinces. The coupling and coordination development model and ESDA spatial analysis method are used to quantitatively measure and statistically analyze the time series variation and spatial differentiation degree of the coupling and coordination relationship of provincial ecological-cultural-tourism.The results show that the coordinated development index of China's provincial ecology-culture-tourism is low and on the dysfunction stage. Although it has shown an upward trend in the past ten years, the increase rate is small.The high-score areas of the coordinated development index are mainly distributed in the eastern coast and southwest Sichuan Province and the high score area has spread in the past ten years.Three subsystems have different spatial performances in different provincial units, the difference in development level is ecological>tourism>culture. The result also show the coordinated development index has obvious spatial positive correlation.

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    Analysis on China's tourism geography research pattern and hotspot areas
    Bin LEI, Songzhi LI, Zuo ZHANG
    2021, 30(3): 632-644.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019645
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    Based on the 560 tourism projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) during the period of 2000-2019, this paper conducts a statistical analysis on the spatial-temporal distribution, institution, and the principle investigator of the projects. A classification system for tourism research questions is also established. By tracking the changes in research topics, this paper summarizes the development trend of China's tourism research. Results show that: during 2000-2019, the funding for projects in the field of tourism had continued to grow, showing an overall trend of slow growth, rapid growth, then increased significantly, and finally reached a stable status. The spatial distribution of the projects showed a pattern of "high in the east and low in the west". The institutions get funded were apparently concentrated, while the principle investigators were scattered distributed. Regarding research topics evolution, interests on tourism flow, tourism industry development, and tourism traffic had gradually decreased. In contrast, research on the topics of the behavior and perception of tourists, social and cultural influence of tourism, space of tourism destinations, protection and development of typical tourism sites, and the tourism ecological environment had increased significantly. Finally, the characteristics of the annual changes in hotspot areas of tourism were summarized. This paper updates and expands the previous research in this field, and may provide insights for tourism scholars in topic selection and project application.

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    Analysis on structural characteristics of regional tourism network and its influence mechanism from the perspective of multi-dimensional flow ——Taking Yunnan Province as an example
    Jianlei HAN, Qingzhong MING, Pengfei SHI, Dengshan LUO
    2021, 30(3): 645-656.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2020376
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    From the perspective of multi-dimensional tourism flow, the characteristics of the spatial network structure of tourism flow in Yunnan Province and their influence mechanism are compared and explored by using GIS spatial analysis and social network analysis.Results show that: (1)Supply and demand of the tourism flow in Yunnan Province show obvious reverse development trend, and the heterogeneous evolution characteristics in tourism flow network are obvious, which means the higher the tourism flow level is, the lower the quality of tourism flow is. The development of tourism economic flow has not been enhanced along with the development of tourism market. The network density is low and there is a long-term existence of tourism economic development isolation, and the tourism economic cooperation exchange is insufficient. The "zero-sum competition" development trend of the cities in the tourism economy flow network makes the tourism market a certain "common tragedy" phenomenon. (2)The level of tourism flow nodes and their spatial characteristics in Yunnan Province are significantly different, and the core-edge structure is obvious. (3) Tourism economic flow network in Yunnan Province is affected by the intermediary power of tourism flow, driving force of tourism information flow, and the pulling power of tourism capital flow. The three forces present historical differences: the intermediary power of tourism flow continued to strengthen, the driving force of tourism information flow steadily strengthened, the pulling power of tourism capital flow significantly decreased, but the impact of the force shows strong and long-lasting difference evolution. (4)The driving mode of tourism economic growth and tourism economic flow network in Yunnan province are gradually changing from "supply-side-driven" pattern to "demand-side-driven" pattern.

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    Research on the relationship between border tourism and border trade based on coupled coordination model: A case study of Dongxing
    Ailian HUANG, Junrong ZHU, Pingyu LUO
    2021, 30(3): 657-666.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2021.03.2019613
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    Tourism promotes border trade, border trade promotes tourism, border tourism and border trade have a close interactive relationship. Based on the coupling theory in physics, this paper discusses and analyzes the mechanism of the coordination and development between the border tourism system and the border trade system, and constructs the coupling relation model and the index evaluation system of the two systems, taking Dongxing in the border port area of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region as an example, the coupling coordination degree model and the gray correlation analysis model are used to measure the coupling degree of the border tourism and the border trade, and the influence factors of the coupling development are analyzed. The result shows that: The development level function value of the border tourism and the border trade development in Dong Xing city is increasing, from 0.017 in 2009 to 1.004 in 2018, and the level function value of the comprehensive development level of the border trade increased from 0.01 in 2009 to 1.007 in 2018. The coupling degree between the border tourism and the border trade of the Dongxing city is in the running-in period from 2009 to 2017,and the stability phase is reached in 2018.The coupling degree of coordination realizes the transition from the low-level coupling coordination stage to the intermediate-level coupling coordination stage, and finally enters the high-level coupling coordination stage. The results of the study emphasize that border trade plays an important role in stimulating it, and point out that border areas should make active use of the policy of opening up national borders, on the one hand, to develop border trade tourism products through tourism enterprise organizations, on the other hand, to further promote the growth of border port tourists through the development of border trade.

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