Abstract
Through the construction of a population flow and migration relationship matrix, this paper analyzes population flow and migration in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration during the Spring Festival travel rush and daily period. This paper also studies the urban network spatial structure characteristics and the influencing factors from the perspective of inter-provincial population flow and migration. The results show the following: (1) as a central city, Shanghai has a significant siphon effect, with Suzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wuxi and Changzhou accumulating 86.95% of the incoming population. The Shanghai–Jiangsu cross-border floating population is active and accounts for 40.83% of the total mobility scale in the same period. The population flow and migration network in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration shows obvious hierarchical characteristics. The secondary network relationship during the Spring Festival travel rush is the main migration path, while the first-level network relationship in the daily period is the main flow path. (2) Three indicators, namely, the network density, mean centrality, and control force based on the population flow and migration, consistently show that the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration network presents a strong connection state with the formation of a local cluster structure, highlighting that the city tightness in terms of population flow and migration also has dual attributes, which refers to “the restriction of the geographic space effect” and “overcoming the friction of space”. (3) Economic scale, political resources, industrial structure, and the historical basis are important factors influencing the formation of population flows and migration networks. Employment opportunities and labor wages are key guiding factors of the population migration direction, and spatial distance is a conditional factor influencing the formation of population flows and migration networks. The inter-provincial boundary, temporal distance, and transboundary frequency are the decisive factors for the formation of network patterns of population flow and migration.
Highlights
An urban network is a kind of urban relationship generated in a relatively unconstrained space–time scale by flow factors such as production, service, information and traffic, etc. [1]
The research goals of this paper are the following: firstly, to carry out urban network construction and structural characteristics analysis based on the perspective of population flow and migration; secondly, to explore the influencing factors of the formation and development of urban networks based on a quadratic assignment procedure (QAP), improving and testing the influencing factor groups of the formation and development of the network structure
The unemployment rate, spatial distance, time distance, and trans-border frequency were all negative values in the regression analysis of the population migration network during the Spring Festival travel rush and the daily population flow network, where neither the unemployment rate nor the spatial distance passed the significance test in the regression analysis of the population migration network during the Spring Festival
Summary
An urban network is a kind of urban relationship generated in a relatively unconstrained space–time scale by flow factors such as production, service, information and traffic, etc. [1]. Urban geography regards urban attributes as homogeneous elements and discusses the differentiation phenomenon of cross-regional structure development caused by administrative boundaries [36,37,38]. The problem is that the aforementioned research only focused on the phenomenon of regional differentiation caused by the objective existence of boundaries, including a lack of exploration in the construction paths and development mechanisms of the international network embedded in national boundaries with the background of globalization, as well as regional networks embedded in inter-provincial boundaries with the background of regional integration. As a unique product of administrative divisions in China, the objective existence of inter-provincial boundaries makes the regional differential size become a key factor influencing the formation and development of urban network relationships under the boundary theory system
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