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Area of Science:

  • Urban and Regional Economics
  • Sustainable Development Studies
  • Spatial Planning and Policy

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  • Rapid urbanization in China necessitates understanding its impact on regional development.
  • The spatial layout of urban functions is crucial for sustainable regional growth.
  • Coordinated regional development is a key challenge in China's evolving urban landscape.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the impact of urban functional specialization on coordinated regional development in China.
  • To quantitatively measure the degree of coordinated development in major metropolitan areas.
  • To investigate the factors influencing functional specialization and its synergy.

Main Methods:

  • Calculation of the coordinated degree index for four Chinese metropolitan areas (2008-2019).
  • Application of the panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model to assess causal relationships.
  • Empirical analysis of market activity, social productivity, and government policies.

Main Results:

  • High market activity fosters functional specialization synergy.
  • Social productivity directly influences functional specialization and regional synergy.
  • Government policies have progressively strengthened functional specialization and synergy.
  • Variations exist in the expression and promotion of functional specialization across different metropolitan areas.

Conclusions:

  • Urban functional specialization is a significant driver of coordinated regional development.
  • Market forces, productivity, and policy interventions interact to shape urban functional specialization.
  • Context-specific factors lead to differing outcomes in metropolitan functional specialization and coordinated development.