Industry Positioning and Agglomeration

Abstract

Very serious problems exist in some new urban areas because during the early stage of running new urban areas, people do not carry out any strategic research, especially research on industry. Some professionals only make some spatial layout planning or copy the old development planning of a city—or build castles in the air—without doing the necessary research and exploration about the basic situation and industrial development of new urban areas. Some small and medium-sized cities in China lack qualified and experienced planning institutions and professionals. For every urban planning and design project, we invite planning and design departments in large cities, university professionals, and even some famous planning and design offices and “big shots” from abroad. These organizations and people may have very high professional levels but they do not really understand about the target new urban areas. Instead of minute study, they just work to plan everything after a brief and hurried look. So the new urban areas they have planned are divorced from reality: something familiar but paradoxical, and difficult to carry out and complete.