Application Studies
WU Dafang, LAN Wanqian, HE Yinjie, XU Guoyang, ZHANG Qiulin, ZHANG Canjia, LIU Qianjin, CHEN Ruolin
The spatial distribution and allocation of higher education resources are directly related to the region's innovation ability and competitiveness. As China's most dynamic economic region, rational layout of higher education resources of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is crucial to support its advancement into a world-class bay area. Based on the perspective of geographic space, this study summarizes the shortcomings of domestic and foreign research, follows the path of "resource pattern distribution and influencing mechanism", and uses the GINI coefficient and geographic detector analysis method to analyze the spatial distribution balance and influencing factors of higher education resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The research shows: (1) The spatial distribution of higher education resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is obviously unbalanced, among which Guangzhou and Shenzhen are obviously unbalanced relative to population and economic distribution. (2) The spatial distribution of higher education resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is highly correlated with factors such as the number of urban primary and secondary school students, urban per capita GDP, urban population and urban education expenditure. In particular, it is greatly affected by the number of primary and secondary school students, indicating that higher education is greatly affected by basic education. (3) In the interactive factor detection, the number of urban primary and secondary school students combined with other factors will achieve a large nonlinear enhancement effect. It is expected that the spatial structure of educational resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will form a geographical spatial circle structure with four core cities of Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and other cities such as Zhuhai, Dongguan and Foshan as the periphery in the future, radiating and driving the development of surrounding areas. The research helps to understand the specific gaps in the balance of the spatial structure of higher education resources in the Greater Bay Area, which is beneficial to the rational allocation of higher education resources and the rational tilt of policies.