Author(s)

Chunlei Song, Bing Zhao^*

Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, China.

By adopting the methods of GIS and Spatial Correlation Analysis, from the perspective of the spatial scale, the author analyzed the spatial relevance between all the counties’ GDP and their water resources utilization in the upper reaches of Minjiang River Basin. The research shows that, firstly, their GDP and water resources utilization distribute disproportionally. Secondly, their GDP of secondary industry has definite correlation in spatial distribution and certain degree of spatial aggregation, at the same time, which is positively related to water consumption in spatial correlation. After analyzing the correlation of GDP and water resources utilization, it is found that the total water consumption and water consumption of the secondary industry are positively correlated with GDP spatially, while the GDP of the primary industry and the tertiary industry are negatively correlated with water consumption. The scarcity of available water resources is a key restricting factor for the economic development of western China. Due to the limitations of data collection, there may be some deviations in the final data analysis.

Water Resources, Spatial Correlation, Moran Index, Water Consumption

Song, C. and Zhao, B. (2019) A Study of the Spatial Relevance between Economic Development and Water Resources Utilization in the Upper Reaches of Minjiang River Basin. Open Journal of Business and Management, 7, 1273-1284. doi: 10.4236/ojbm.2019.73089.