The demonstration research of Beijing socio-spatial differentiation

Wang Jian¹, Chen Rui², Wang Li³,Deng Yu⁴

¹ Faculty of Institute of Policy and Management,Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.55, Zhongguancun Donglu, Beijing,China., e-mail:caswangjian@126.com

² Faculty of Institute of Policy and Management,Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.55, Zhongguancun Donglu, Beijing,China., e-mail:tylcr@yahoo.com.cn

³Master of Institute of Policy and Management,Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.55, Zhongguancun Donglu, Beijing,China., & Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,19A Yu Quan Rd, Beijing,China,e-mail:luojianianhua@126.com

⁴Master of Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, 11A, Datun Road,Chaoyang District, Beijing, China& Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,19A Yu Quan Rd, Beijing,China,e-mail:rain00788@163.com

At present, China is in the "bottleneck bound period", that the social stratification increased, the gap between the rich and the poor widened, and the obvious contradiction between the classes stood out. In this paper, with the Beijing city's 18 districts and counties as the basic research unit, two different aspects of socio-spatial differentiation were studied, from the urban employment to the floating population distribution. In the analysis, the Location Quotients was used to compare the professional workers with low-level services workers, the floating population in the year 1995 with in 2005. The results showed that the professional workers mainly concentrated in the central area and suburb and the low-level services workers mainly in outer suburban districts. And the professional workers had greater trend to spatial differentiation. Beijing had huge gap between urban and rural areas, and the industry structure of some Ecological Preservation Development Districts was irrational. The overall trend of floating population was that the suburb always large gathered, the outer suburban districts increased, and the center reduced.