Spatial dynamic co-relations between economic development performances and major factors: evidence of coastal regions in China

The dynamics of coastal economic regions in China need to be studied in the visualized way. Through the data analysis of China's three major coastal economic regions from 1994 to 2014, the authors of the paper utilize the standard deviation ellipse and cosine similarity methods to explore the evolution characteristics of economic barycenter and driving factors. It turns out that the economic barycenter in three economic regions is moving toward inland, matching the trend of the national economic center of gravity. The driving forces of economic regions show diversified spatial trajectories in three economic regions.