Spatial and Temporal Patterns of China's High-Tech Industries and Structural Decomposition of Sources of Spatial Variation: 2012-2020

Abstract

This paper investigates the spatial distribution of high-tech industries in China and the structural decomposition of their sources of spatial variation from 2012 to 2020. The results are visualized by using ArcGis plotting. And the Thiel index is used to quantitatively analyze the overall regional differences, intra-zone differences and inter-zone differences, as well as the contribution rate of intra-zone differences and inter-zone differences to the overall differences in China's high-tech industry from 2012 to 2020. China's high-tech industry is characterised by uneven development within the Eastern, Western, Central and Northeastern Regions. Especially within the Western Region, the development is very uneven. It is recommended to introduce high-tech talents to the less developed areas of high-tech industry; to provide stronger policies to help the local high-tech industry; to further divide the Western Region into developed and less developed areas of high-tech industry in the west, and to provide more precise assistance.