Affiliations: [a] School of Business Administration of Chongqing Vocational and Technical University of Mechatronics, Chongqing, China | [b] School of Economics & Management, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China
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Corresponding author: Baoshuai Zhang, School of Economics & Management, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China. E-mail: bscqnu2022@126.com.
Note: [1] The Yangtze River Economic Belt is abbreviated as YREB.
Abstract: A variety of measurement methods were used comprehensively in this paper to conduct empirical research on the CE, spatial pattern characteristics and influencing causes of the YREB. Both the total factor CE and the single factor CE were discovered relatively stable. Starting around 2013, the development of the tail cities of the YREB has gradually improved. In addition to Sichuan, Hunan, Chongqing, Hubei and other places where the increase in CE had exceeded that of other cities, the development of CE in Shanghai has also increased significantly. The CE of the YREB had increased with a significant positive spatial autocorrelation and a significant spatial aggregation effect between 2006 and 2017. The spatial spillover effect of CE in the YREB is mainly transmit through factors such as economic growth, energy structure, industrial structure, government intervention, population density, foreign direct investment and the level of marketization, and the spatial interaction between each factor and CE cannot be ignored.
