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City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers

XI Guangliang ZHEN Feng HE Jinliao GONG Yanhao

XI Guangliang, ZHEN Feng, HE Jinliao, GONG Yanhao. City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers[J]. 中国地理科学, 2018, 28(2): 231-246. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0927-1
引用本文: XI Guangliang, ZHEN Feng, HE Jinliao, GONG Yanhao. City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers[J]. 中国地理科学, 2018, 28(2): 231-246. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0927-1
XI Guangliang, ZHEN Feng, HE Jinliao, GONG Yanhao. City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2018, 28(2): 231-246. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0927-1
Citation: XI Guangliang, ZHEN Feng, HE Jinliao, GONG Yanhao. City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2018, 28(2): 231-246. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0927-1

City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers

doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0927-1
基金项目: Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41571146, 41701178), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2016M600393), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20170639)
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    ZHEN Feng.E-mail:Zhenfeng@nju.edu.cn

City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers

Funds: Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41571146, 41701178), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2016M600393), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20170639)
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    Corresponding author: ZHEN Feng.E-mail:Zhenfeng@nju.edu.cn
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City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers

doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0927-1
    基金项目:  Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41571146, 41701178), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2016M600393), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20170639)
    通讯作者: ZHEN Feng.E-mail:Zhenfeng@nju.edu.cn

摘要: City networks have been a critical topic in the fields of urban geography and regional economics. Numerous studies have explored city networks, focusing mainly on infrastructure and industrial networks. Unlike traditional urban network of which the major measuring indexes are population sizes and entity industries, online commodity service networks could reflect well the influencing of emerging economies, especially the Internet economy, on city networks. This study analyzes and reveals structural features of China's city networks through online commodity services, providing the internet economic approach on city networks. Results indicate that the core cities of online commodity service networks are mainly concentrated in eastern coastal areas. In addition, spatial polarization and layer structure of network connections are obvious, descending from the centers in eastern China to peripheral cities in central and western China. Online commodity services of different cities show apparent differences and uncertainties in terms of specialization rates of international connection, which presents a tendency toward diversification. Online commodity service networks are not only associated with goods production, supply, and consumption in physical space but also reflect virtual information, capital, and technology flows, thus providing a new empirical approach for understanding city networks in information and internet economic age.

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XI Guangliang, ZHEN Feng, HE Jinliao, GONG Yanhao. City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers[J]. 中国地理科学, 2018, 28(2): 231-246. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0927-1
引用本文: XI Guangliang, ZHEN Feng, HE Jinliao, GONG Yanhao. City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers[J]. 中国地理科学, 2018, 28(2): 231-246. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0927-1
XI Guangliang, ZHEN Feng, HE Jinliao, GONG Yanhao. City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2018, 28(2): 231-246. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0927-1
Citation: XI Guangliang, ZHEN Feng, HE Jinliao, GONG Yanhao. City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2018, 28(2): 231-246. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0927-1
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