Abstract
Market services industries are closely related to residents’ lives, and its spatial distribution has an important impact on satisfying residents’ consumption needs and promoting economic development. In recent years, with the rapid development of urban–rural integration and the gradual implementation of a rural revitalization strategy, rural areas around metropolises have become the “frontier” of urban geographic expansion, causing the rural market services industries to specialize, commercialize, and modernize. Taking Wuhan as a case study, the spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of the market services industries were measured using the average nearest neighbor index, the kernel density estimate, the spatial correlation analysis, and the Geodetector method. The results are as follows. (1) The market services industries in Wuhan’s new urban districts, as a whole and individually, showed characteristics of agglomeration. The market services industries overall formed two high-density areas and multiple agglomeration areas, and the high-density areas of different types of market services industries showed characteristics of partial spatial overlap. (2) There was a significant positive spatial correlation in market services industries, as a whole and individually. Among them, the life services industry had the strongest spatial correlation, while the accommodation services industry had the weakest. (3) Market demand and traffic conditions were the core factors influencing the distribution of the market services industries in Wuhan’s new urban districts, followed by urbanization and economic levels; and tourism conditions had a lower impact. Each detector had a different impact on the spatial distribution of different market services industries, and the interaction research showed that the spatial distribution of the market services industries was the result of a combination of multiple factors. This research provides a future development direction for market service industries in rural areas.
Highlights
With the rapid development of globalization and technology information, the industrial structure of China has gradually transformed from “secondary-industry-oriented” to “service-industry-oriented”, and the service industry has increasingly become the engine of regional economic growth
Each detector had a different impact on the spatial distribution of different market services industries, and the interaction research showed that the spatial distribution of the market services industries was the result of a combination of multiple factors
As the relationship between urban and rural areas in China has shifted from rural areas dominated by urban areas to urban–rural integration, the rural areas around metropolises have become node areas with specific complex values that extend from the urban center
Summary
With the rapid development of globalization and technology information, the industrial structure of China has gradually transformed from “secondary-industry-oriented” to “service-industry-oriented”, and the service industry has increasingly become the engine of regional economic growth. As a branch of the service industry, the distribution and location selection of the market services industries, which are closely related to the daily life of residents, have always been important research fields in geography. The spatial distribution reflects the law of industry location selection, and affects the living standards of residents. The rural economy has begun to transform to specialization, commercialization, and modernization, and various types of market services industries have gradually emerged in rural areas. Studying the spatial distribution of rural market services industries is of vital for optimizing commercial land use, rationally allocating resources, stimulating economic growth, and increasing employment opportunities
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