Similarity of Industrial Structure and Sustainable Development of Regional Economy: The Perspective of Guangdong

Abstract

With the development of human society, the division of labor will not be weaker and weaker. On the contrary, the trend of division of labor will be stronger and stronger. No matter which field we study, the field of economic or that of social governance, the division of labor always has a process from spontaneity to filling to dispersion, and then to coupling. On this issue, Engels’ Theory on Resultant Force in History is significant. The theory of resultant force suggests the general force of social development. Resultant force widely exists in all fields of society. Of course, the economic field is no exception. In the economic field, a prominent manifestation of resultant force is division of labor and its coordination. How can all parties in the economic field form a joint force as a favorable factor for social development? Obviously, the disorderly division of labor will only increase the chaos in the economic field. This paper analyzes the division of labor in social development, explains the important influence of urban division of labor in regional opening, and demonstrates the importance of urban division of labor in China’s contemporary open economy. With the help of the coefficient of similarity of industrial structure in regional economic development, from the perspective of Guangdong, which is the forefront of China’s reform and opening up, this paper studies the urban division of labor based on economic production as well as its contribution to the coordinated and sustainable development of regional economy, and then explores the role of core cities in this process.