跨国公司在华投资逐渐从单一功能向整条价值链拓展,其不同功能的空间布局与中国的城市等级相对应,影响和改变着中国城市体系的空间结构。本文分析了在华制造类跨国公司不同功能环节进入中国的渐变过程及其区位分布与中国城市等级体系的对应关系;并以全球五百强企业在华分支机构的数据为基础,采用条件逻辑模型分析了不同功能的区位决定因素,发现在控制城市特性基础上,城市行政级别、距离中心城市远近和城市人口规模共同影响跨国公司功能区位,而且相同功能之间以及研发和生产、生产和物流、销售与生产等不同功能间均存在着共聚现象。此类功能共聚推动着中国城市功能专业化发展和城市区域的产生。
MNCs' investment in China has gradually expanded from single function to the whole value chain;its functional location is corresponded with China's urban system and affecting and reshaping the spatial structure of it.This paper analyzes the gradual entering process of manufacturing MNCs' in China and shows the correspondence of its geographic distribution with China's urban system.Based on the database of all branches of the global top 500 enterprises and applying the conditional logit model,this paper finds out the determinants of different functions' location.The results indicate that urban class,distance to the central city and urban population are most significant factors that controlling the urban feature variables.There also exists functional agglomeration as well as co-agglomeration between different functions such as RD and productions,productions and logistics,sales and productions,which promotes the functional specialization of Chinese cities and the conformation of city-region.