空间经济学在规模报酬递增和不完全竞争市场假设下研究了集聚的动力、形态与效应问题,解释了空间因素在资源配置中的作用。国内空间经济学的研究从集聚的形态,包括产业集聚、城市和城市群、一体化区域等方面入手,通过研究中国产业集聚的空间分布,进而探讨了集聚的成因,特别是对外开放和地方保护主义这两个在中国具有特别意义的因素对集聚形成的作用,分析了各种集聚形态所产生的效应。这些研究承认地区发展差异化在一定阶段是不可避免的,因此促进要素流动和市场一体化对区域协调发展举足轻重,从而为中国发展和改革的理论深化提供了新的视角,并为产业政策与区域政策的制定提供了新的理论依据,也进一步拓展了空间经济学自身的发展空间。今后,国内空间经济学的主要研究方向将会集中在理论创新研究、集聚微观机制的拓展研究、集聚和区域发展之间的关系研究上。
Based on a hypothesis of increasing returns of scale and non-perfect competitive market, spatial economics is concerned with the power, forms, and effects of agglomeration, and explains how spatial factors work in resource allocation. China's present domestic researches on spatial economics focus on diversified agglomeration, which consists of industry agglomeration, urban cities and urban crowding as well as integrated regions. Through a study on the spatial distribution of industry agglomeration, researchers analyze the causes of agglomeration formation, especially the roles the opening-up and local protectionism (two special factors in China) play in the said formation, and then the effects the various agglomeration forms bring about. After presenting diversities of the agglomeration's effects, they acknowledge that China's regional differences are inevitable in a certain period of time. Therefore, factor floating and market integration play a decisive role in regional coordination and growth. These conclusions provide a fresh perspective for the further development of the theory concerning China's development and reform, and a new theoretical basis for the formulation of industrial policies and regional policies, while making more space for the development of spatial economics itself. Finally, it is pointed out that the domestic main research orientation in the future will be focused on the theoretic innovation of spatial economics, the development of micro-level mechanism of agglomeration, and the relationships between agglomeration and regional development.