ON THE TERRESTRIAL STRUCTURE AND TYPE OF INDUSTRIAL REGIONS
论工业区的地域结构与地域类型

Terrestrial structure of industrial regions reflects the spatial features of industrial regions and their combination situation and proportion.It has taken shape progressively in the process of exploiting and using natural resources and advantageous location. Different industrial regions have different characteristics in terrestrial structure with the difference ot their birth setting, developing stage, aggregated industrial types and scale.Based 011 the feature of the terrestrial structure formation of industrial regions, the terrestrial types of industrial regions may be classified into the following five types, the urban type; the mining area type; the junction-combination type; the grouping type and the network type industrial district.The first three types are the urbanized industrial districts, and the last two the regional.Generally, the development and evolution of terrestrial structure of industrial regions proceed from point to area, from one level to multiple levels, from one group to multiple groups. Its movement direction and development velocity follow the smallest Resistance Law, i.e. the structure could firstly advance towards the smallest resistance direction with the fastest speed.