Spatial Econometric Analysis of Zhejiang's External Construction Industry Activity

To explore the spatial tendency and location characteristics of external activity and accordingly the spatial effect of social and economic factors, this paper investigated the spatial distribution of Zhejiang's construction industry activity in China through GIS and spatial statistic methods. The global Moran's I is calculated to measure the patterns of the provincial construction activities contributed by Zhejiang at the global scale, based on which, the Moran's I scatter plot and local indicators of spatial association are introduced to detect the spatial autocorrelation at the local scale. The analysis shows that there exists spatial interdependence of Zhejiang's external construction industry, and the construction industry activity exhibits various spatial pattern of distribution at the local scale, which is the result from spatial interaction of varied environmental variables.