Study on Geographic Agglomeration of Fruit Industry in China: Spatial-temporal Characteristics and Affecting Factors
分析了1978-2011年中国水果产业地理集聚的时空特征，发现集聚程度缓慢下降但近年又有集中趋势，西部为主要集聚区，自然禀赋、劳动力和运输成本是重要影响因素。
Fruit industry has a significant position in agriculture.Compared with other agricultural,it need to do a special study on fruit industry because of the particularity of its geographic agglomeration.We analysis the spatial-temporal characteristics of geographic agglomeration of fruit industrial from 1978 to 2011 in China,and reveals the affecting factors.The results show that the characteristics of geographic agglomeration of fruit industrial are notable and there are distinct differences between different crops;its geographic agglomeration present a slowly decline trend which has a certain stage feature,but there was a central tendency in recent years again;most provinces' fruit industry geographic concentration feature is apparent,the western region is the main gathering area of the fruit industry in China,and this gathering trend is still developing;the affecting factors of fruit industrial geographic agglomeration mainly include natural endowments and technology,institution and economy,etc.Compared to other agricultural industries,natural endowments,labor cost and transportation cost play a more important role in the geographic agglomeration of fruit industry.