Author(s)

Chao Wen, Jingjing Chen

Corresponding Author

Chao Wen

Abstract

The economic gap is an important indicator of a regional economic development. This paper is about 31 cities in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River City Group years from 2003 to 2013, a total of 11 years of data as the basis, using spatial difference index to analysis the gap between the economic of developing cities. While introduction of a spatial error model and a spatial lag model of the spatial regression analysis to provide theoretical support for the convergence of its economic development. Comprehensive measure the economic development coordination of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River City Group in the past 10 years to development the regions better in the future.

Keywords

The Middle Reaches Of The Yangtze River City Group, Economic Gap, Convergence, Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis, Spatial Error Model.