The Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Exhibition Industry in China
研究了中国展览业在2011-2013年间的空间集聚和时间分布特征，发现区域发展不平衡、季节性聚集等问题，与经济水平、场馆建设等因素相关。
After nearly 30 years of development,China's exhibition industry has been expanding,and its economic benefit keeps rising year by year. Nowadays the exhibition industry has gradually developed into the new bright spot.This article make a research on exhibitions' spatial agglomeration and time distribution characteristics from the perspective of the Time-Space-Thinking. Based on a Chinese webs namedE networkwhich providing the information about exhibition,many contents including the number of the exhibition and venues,exhibition area from January 2011 to December 2013 are collected and counted. Then combining some related indexes such as Geographic concentration index,saturation curve,peak index with software like the spss17.0 and ARCGIS,the time and space distribution characteristics of regional convention and exhibition in China are analyzed. Through the study,it can be found that the exhibition industry in the national scope has the problem of unbalanced regional development,seasonal cluster and types,and these differences are linked closely with the province's economic development level,the construction situation of the venues,regional climate and product attributes factors.