The construction of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor is crucial to the economic development of western China and even Southeast Asia. Research analyzes the evolution of urban economic spatial pattern of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor in different years and discusses the coordinated development between economic connection and accessibility and its influencing factors. The research results show that: First, the influence of labor force on the urban centrality of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor is gradually increasing, and the spatial pattern of the urban network has gradually shifted from a unipolar attraction type to a spatial pattern of "one main and multiple subordinates." Second, urban accessibility presents a "core-periphery" spatial pattern, and the coupling coordination degree presents the spatial characteristics of "centro-periphery." The economic correlation strength, spatial accessibility, and the coordinated distribution of the two all have obvious spatial agglomeration characteristics. Third, there are spatial differences in the influencing factors of the coupling coordination degree. Based on this, the research puts forward the development mode of "growth pole," "area," and "axis," attaches importance to the problems of labor force in urban development, and strengthens the level of coupling coordination between regional transportation and economy, to promote the integration of regional transportation, logistics, and economy.
Keywords: Coupling coordination; New Western Land-Sea Corridor; Spatial accessibility; Spatial pattern evolution; Urban association network.
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