中文摘要：

利用287个地级市（含4个直辖市）政府规划管理部门门户网站中的友情链接信息，建立了它们之间互相关注的关系矩阵，并用社会网络分析方法进行了分析。研究发现，这一籍由互联网形成的政府问非正式网络，在形态上有较大的省际差异，可以分为简单链式型、简单轮式型、类轮式型和通道型等不同类型，反映出省际地方政府间不同的竞合能动关系及其对政治、经济社会环境的不同嵌入程度；而且，这些关系并不完全受行政关系约束，是互联网时代中国府际关系的新现象。

英文摘要：

The paper uses the network connection data among 287 planning departments at the prefecture level municipality to build a network matrix and used social network analysis methods to identify their collaborative relationship. Through this new methods and new data, the researchers found that these informal governmental relationships have different network patterns which express different networking relationships among these governmental departments. While these relationships are not constrained by formal administrative relationships, they nonetheless reflect different collaborative and competitive relations. The network analysis has helped revealing these relationships.