RELATIONSHIP ON REGIONAL ECONOMY OF AGGLOMERATION AND URBANIZATION IN ZHEJIANG

In order to address the issue about the speed of urbanization consistent with the high level of regional economy of agglomeration, this study make much useful attempts, applying a series of spatial autocorrelation for the identification of urbanization and localization economies. The estimated results show that the sector of wholesale, retail sale, trade and catering services in Zhejiang had both urbanized and more highly localized economy in 1998 and 2001; both levels to some extent have decreased over time.Moreover, the manufacturing industry have not existed the absence of urbanization and the presence of localization during the periods of 1998-2001; the localized degree has grown up over time.