STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULATION AND ECONOMIC SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION IN YANGTZE RIVER DELTA
分析了长三角人口与经济集聚的关系，发现三种类型：人口集中超前、滞后或协调于经济集中；并利用重心分析法揭示了改革开放以来两者重心的移动轨迹。
The changes in the distribution of population and economic are very important in the regional studies. This paper analyses the distribution of population and economic concentration, the relationship between these two indexes in Yangtze River Delta. The writer finds that there are three types in the relationship between the population and economic development in this area. That is, population concentration advanced of economic concentration; population concentration lagged behind of economic concentration; population concentration harmonized with economic concentration. What's more, this paper also gives a whole look of the relationship between population and economic in Yangtze River Delta from the Reform and Open up, according to use the gravity centre analysis method. The study finds out the gravity centers of population and economic are both in Suzhou city area, and moves forward to the southwest of the whole region, which could be divided into three phases. Moreover, compared with the population, economic gravity center had a more intense movement. At last, the writer gives a simple explanation of the reasons, and puts forward to the future relationship between the two factors.