Hengyu Gu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1156836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hengyu Gu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hengyu |
| FAMILY NAME | Gu |
| SIGNATURE | GU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanjing University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1174-4940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Decoding the Myth of Provincial Development Zone Policy in Urban China
As a widespread socioeconomic phenomenon, development zones (DZs) have garnered global academic attention; however, small and midsized DZs, although constituting the majority of the DZ system, have been frequently neglected in current urban and regional studies. To fill this gap, this study focuses on provincial development zones (PDZs) in China and examines their development logic by using 1991 PDZs developed from 1984 to 2018. A multidimensiona…
Towards talent dividend: How urban amenities shape the geography of skilled labour’s economic contribution in China
This study challenges the assumption of a homogeneous economic contribution of skilled labour. Extending amenity theory, it examines how urban amenities influence the geography of skilled labour’s economic contribution in China. We reveal that skilled labour’s economic contribution exhibits substantial fluctuations across cities and over time. Various urban amenities play heterogeneous roles in this process. Consumption amenities boost skilled la…
Covid-19 pandemic and road infrastructure exerted stage-dependent spatiotemporal influences on inter-city road travel in China
As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes and travel resumes, it is important to understand how the influences on inter-city road travel varied across different stages of the pandemic. However, the underlying spatiotemporal heterogeneity in the relationship between the mobility shifts and its determinants at different pandemic stages is unclear. This research divides the pandemic timeline into four distinct stages based on the data from the Chinese Health…
Having another baby on the move? Geographical variation in the determinants of migrant women’s fertility intentions for another child among Chinese cities
The low fertility rate has brought China new economic and social development challenges. Against the background of the continuous adjustment of the fertility policy, it is crucial to explore the fertility intentions of migrants in rapidly urbanising China. Supported by a nationwide survey for Chinese migrants, this study constructs a comprehensive framework that includes indicators of individual characteristics, family status, economic opportunit…
Progress Rings Visualization of G20 countries’ achievements on SDG13 (Climate Action)
In this paper, we present a novel multidimensional visualization methodology—Progress Rings Visualization—to comprehensively analyze the performance of G20 nations regarding Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action). Through the visualization of four critical indicators—carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production (FFCP), greenhouse gas emissions embodied in imports (GHGI), carbon dioxide emissions embodied in…
Population Geographies in China: Future Directions of Travel
As the most populous country in the world for a very long time (Shen 2005) and the second-largest economy in the global context (Danlin and Yaojun 2022), China's rapid pace of economic development and urbanisation since the 1980s has attracted considerable attention (Qi et al. 2021; Li et al. 2023). Indeed, research in population geography by Chinese scholars has a relatively long history that can be traced back to an early foundational paper by …
Industrial Structure Rationalisation, Upgrading, and the Geography of Intercity Migration in China
This study investigates the changing geographies of intercity migration in China and how various aspects of cities' industrial structure shape these patterns. Using microdata from the population census and the 1% population sampling survey, the analysis identifies a rising share of intra‐provincial migration from 2000 to 2015, accompanied by more notable changes in its spatial pattern compared to interprovincial migration. A shift in migratory ro…
Dilemmas for regional inequality in talent aggregation through environmental amenities: Re-examine China's hukou puzzle
Evolution of migrant workers’ roles and attitudes amidst robotic production: Evidence from China
Visualising urbanisation and semi-urbanisation of rural migrants in China: A Perspective From Migration Network and Destination Preference
Aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, which emphasise creating inclusive and sustainable human settlements, China launched the New-Type Urbanisation plan to promote equitable urban development. This study seeks to deepen understanding of urbanisation and inform policy interventions by visualising the geographical characteristics of urbanisation and semi-urbanisation among rural migrants in China. Using social network ana…
Analyzing rhythms of intercity mobility within and between mega-city regions: Evidence from China
Different roads take me home: The nonlinear relationship between distance and flows during China’s Spring Festival
Human mobility modelling has attracted scholarly attention from physics-based methods and social science explanatory approaches. However, there is limited knowledge of the nonlinear relationship of flows and distance in intercity mobility and regional differences in the nonlinear relationship. Focusing on China’s long-distance and large-scale mobility during the Spring Festival, this paper develops a framework to explain the nonlinear relationshi…
How attitudes from urban residents shape settlement plans of rural-to-urban migrants in China: The role of hukou
Understanding the geographical process of the decline in manufacturing employment in China between 2000 and 2020
The decline in manufacturing employment has emerged as a global demographic phenomenon in recent decades. However, previous research has primarily focused on the national level, resulting in limited geographical insights into the spatial variations of this decline at more minor scales. Our paper decodes the long‐term geographical process of manufacturing employment decline at the city level in China from an “industry‐population‐place” perspective…
Rethinking the nexus between urban amenities and migrants’ hukou transfer intentions in China: The role of the hukou value
The household registration (hukou) system differentiates China from Western countries regarding restrictions on internal migration, the allocation of public resources, and the country's urbanization and development patterns. Although studies have investigated the influence of urban amenities on China's internal migration, limited attention has been given to clarifying the intricate role of hukou values behind these amenities. The research revisit…
Resilience and recovery: Evaluating Covid pandemic effects on ride-hailing mobility and driver income dynamics
Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China
Visualising intercity mobility patterns during China’s Spring Festival travel rush under the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper introduces a new tool, the lunar phase visualisation, and conducts a multitemporal analysis of the spatial patterns and their changes in China’s intercity mobility during the Spring Festival travel rush between 2019 and 2023. By associating the volume of intercity movement in China across various years with lunar phases, it illustrates that during both the return home (first 20 days) and back-to-city (last 20 days) periods, intercity m…
Unravelling intercity mobility patterns in China using multi-year big data: A city classification based on monthly fluctuations and year-round trends
Detecting spatial heterogeneity in the determinants of intercity migration in China
Spatial variations exist in migration patterns and the processes causing the observed patterns. Yet, far less attention has been given to the latter. Even if a few studies have engaged in spatial heterogeneity in the process of migration, the scale multiplicity is not emphasised. This research aims to address these gaps with evidence from Chinese cities. To facilitate international comparisons, we use data on intercity migration over a 5‐year int…
Understanding Intercity Mobility Patterns in Rapidly Urbanizing China, 2015-2019: Evidence from Longitudinal Poisson Gravity Modeling
Whereas much academic effort has been devoted to the physics and geographies of daily intraregion individual movements using new big data on human locations, systematic econometric modeling of the spatiotemporal logic of periodic interregional mobility has received limited attention. Using a multiyear, location-based service data set of daily intercity mobility from the Internet company Tencent, this study systematically examines China’s intercit…
Understanding the Geography of Covid-19 Case Fatality Rates in China: A Spatial Autoregressive Probit-Log Linear Hurdle Analysis
This study employs a spatial autoregressive probit-log linear (SAP-Log) hurdle model to investigate the influencing factors on the probability of death and case fatality rate (CFR) of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the city level in China. The results demonstrate that the probability of death from COVID-19 and the CFR level are 2 different processes with different determinants. The number of confirmed cases and the number of doctors are c…
Kaleidoscope visualisation of China’s internal migration, 1985–2020
In migration networks, the origin-destination (OD) bilateral flows and each site’s in- and outflow volumes are like two sides of the same coin; though popular visualisation approaches such as the chord diagram excel in describing the former, the latter mostly remains less depicted aspect. By applying the Voronoi-based migration Kaleidoscope diagram and integrating it with the sunburst treemap, the article visualises China’s interprovincial migrat…
Revisiting Hukou Transfer Intentions Among Floating Population in Chinese Cities: Spatial Differences and Multi-Level Determinants
The hukou transfer intentions (HTI), as an essential indicator of migration behaviors, is of great significance to the urbanization development and the citizenization process of China’s floating migrants. Although extant studies have devoted extensively to the influence factors of HTI, their spatial differences and multi-level determinants are comparatively under-researched. Based on the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) data in 2016, we emplo…
Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities
How does rural homestead influence the hukou transfer intention of rural-urban migrants in China
Spatial pattern and determinants of migrant workers' interprovincial hukou transfer intention in China: Evidence from a National Migrant Population Dynamic Monitoring Survey in 2016
Using 2016 data from the National Migrant Population Dynamic Monitoring, this article establishes a relationship network to describe migrant workers' interprovincial hukou transfer intention in China. Spatial analysis methods and the eigenvector spatial filtering gravity model are employed to examine the spatial pattern and determinants of the hukou transfer intention network. The results show that (a) most interprovincial migrant workers in Chin…
Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China
Rethinking the nexus between urban amenities and migrants’ hukou transfer intentions in China: The role of the hukou value
The household registration (hukou) system differentiates China from Western countries regarding restrictions on internal migration, the allocation of public resources, and the country's urbanization and development patterns. Although studies have investigated the influence of urban amenities on China's internal migration, limited attention has been given to clarifying the intricate role of hukou values behind these amenities. The research revisit…
Return or not return: Examining the determinants of return intentions among migrant workers in Chinese cities
Well-developed cities have long featured as favoured destinations for Chinese migrant workers. In recent years, however, the incidence of return migration has increased in China, with a significant impact on economic development and social governance at both the origins and destinations. Owing to the limited availability of data, the return intentions of migrant workers at the national level have gone largely unexplored. Using data from the 2016 …
Modelling interprovincial migration in China from 1995 to 2015 based on an eigenvector spatial filtering negative binomial model
Interregional migration is a key issue affecting China's future pattern of urbanisation and regional development. In response to the phenomenon of network autocorrelation (NA) commonly found in migration networks, this paper combines eigenvector spatial filtering (ESF) with a negative binomial gravity model based on four‐stage panel data derived from censuses and population sampling surveys, and it analyses the factors that influenced China's int…
Detecting spatial heterogeneity in the determinants of intercity migration in China
Spatial variations exist in migration patterns and the processes causing the observed patterns. Yet, far less attention has been given to the latter. Even if a few studies have engaged in spatial heterogeneity in the process of migration, the scale multiplicity is not emphasised. This research aims to address these gaps with evidence from Chinese cities. To facilitate international comparisons, we use data on intercity migration over a 5‐year int…
Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities
Modelling skilled and less‐skilled internal migrations in China, 2010–2015: Application of an eigenvector spatial filtering hurdle gravity approach
In consideration of the issue of network autocorrelation and zero‐inflated migration data, the study constructs an eigenvector spatial filtering (ESF) hurdle gravity model (ESF HGM) to examine the determinants of China's skilled and less‐skilled internal migrations between 2010 and 2015. In our case, the ESF technique effectively reduces network autocorrelation bias, while the hurdle approach enhances the model prediction on the probability of ze…
Health service disparity, push-pull effect, and elderly migration in ageing China
Dilemmas for regional inequality in talent aggregation through environmental amenities: Re-examine China's hukou puzzle
Evolution of migrant workers’ roles and attitudes amidst robotic production: Evidence from China
Understanding the geographical process of the decline in manufacturing employment in China between 2000 and 2020
The decline in manufacturing employment has emerged as a global demographic phenomenon in recent decades. However, previous research has primarily focused on the national level, resulting in limited geographical insights into the spatial variations of this decline at more minor scales. Our paper decodes the long‐term geographical process of manufacturing employment decline at the city level in China from an “industry‐population‐place” perspective…
Visualising intercity mobility patterns during China’s Spring Festival travel rush under the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper introduces a new tool, the lunar phase visualisation, and conducts a multitemporal analysis of the spatial patterns and their changes in China’s intercity mobility during the Spring Festival travel rush between 2019 and 2023. By associating the volume of intercity movement in China across various years with lunar phases, it illustrates that during both the return home (first 20 days) and back-to-city (last 20 days) periods, intercity m…
Spatial pattern and determinants of migrant workers' interprovincial hukou transfer intention in China: Evidence from a National Migrant Population Dynamic Monitoring Survey in 2016
Using 2016 data from the National Migrant Population Dynamic Monitoring, this article establishes a relationship network to describe migrant workers' interprovincial hukou transfer intention in China. Spatial analysis methods and the eigenvector spatial filtering gravity model are employed to examine the spatial pattern and determinants of the hukou transfer intention network. The results show that (a) most interprovincial migrant workers in Chin…
Modelling interprovincial migration in China from 1995 to 2015 based on an eigenvector spatial filtering negative binomial model
Interregional migration is a key issue affecting China's future pattern of urbanisation and regional development. In response to the phenomenon of network autocorrelation (NA) commonly found in migration networks, this paper combines eigenvector spatial filtering (ESF) with a negative binomial gravity model based on four‐stage panel data derived from censuses and population sampling surveys, and it analyses the factors that influenced China's int…
Return or not return: Examining the determinants of return intentions among migrant workers in Chinese cities
Well-developed cities have long featured as favoured destinations for Chinese migrant workers. In recent years, however, the incidence of return migration has increased in China, with a significant impact on economic development and social governance at both the origins and destinations. Owing to the limited availability of data, the return intentions of migrant workers at the national level have gone largely unexplored. Using data from the 2016 …
How does rural homestead influence the hukou transfer intention of rural-urban migrants in China
Spatiotemporal Dynamic of Covid-19 Diffusion in China: A Dynamic Spatial Autoregressive Model Analysis
COVID-19 has seriously threatened people’s health and well-being across the globe since it was first reported in Wuhan, China in late 2019. This study investigates the mechanism of COVID-19 transmission in different periods within and between cities in China to better understand the nature of the outbreak. We use Moran’s I, a measure of spatial autocorrelation, to examine the spatial dependency of COVID-19 and a dynamic spatial autoregressive mod…
Understanding the migration of highly and less-educated labourers in post-reform China
How does air pollution affect urban settlement of the floating population in China? New evidence from a push-pull migration analysis
Our results are consistent with existing studies. This study discovers that both external environment and internal factors influence migrants' settlement intentions. Specifically, the differences in population sizes, economic development levels, public services, infrastructure conditions, and environmental regulations between cities play a significant role in migration decisions. We also confirm heterogeneous sensitivities to air pollution of dif…
Modelling skilled and less‐skilled internal migrations in China, 2010–2015: Application of an eigenvector spatial filtering hurdle gravity approach
In consideration of the issue of network autocorrelation and zero‐inflated migration data, the study constructs an eigenvector spatial filtering (ESF) hurdle gravity model (ESF HGM) to examine the determinants of China's skilled and less‐skilled internal migrations between 2010 and 2015. In our case, the ESF technique effectively reduces network autocorrelation bias, while the hurdle approach enhances the model prediction on the probability of ze…
Understanding the Geography of Covid-19 Case Fatality Rates in China: A Spatial Autoregressive Probit-Log Linear Hurdle Analysis
This study employs a spatial autoregressive probit-log linear (SAP-Log) hurdle model to investigate the influencing factors on the probability of death and case fatality rate (CFR) of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the city level in China. The results demonstrate that the probability of death from COVID-19 and the CFR level are 2 different processes with different determinants. The number of confirmed cases and the number of doctors are c…
Kaleidoscope visualisation of China’s internal migration, 1985–2020
In migration networks, the origin-destination (OD) bilateral flows and each site’s in- and outflow volumes are like two sides of the same coin; though popular visualisation approaches such as the chord diagram excel in describing the former, the latter mostly remains less depicted aspect. By applying the Voronoi-based migration Kaleidoscope diagram and integrating it with the sunburst treemap, the article visualises China’s interprovincial migrat…
Revisiting Hukou Transfer Intentions Among Floating Population in Chinese Cities: Spatial Differences and Multi-Level Determinants
The hukou transfer intentions (HTI), as an essential indicator of migration behaviors, is of great significance to the urbanization development and the citizenization process of China’s floating migrants. Although extant studies have devoted extensively to the influence factors of HTI, their spatial differences and multi-level determinants are comparatively under-researched. Based on the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) data in 2016, we emplo…
Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities
Health service disparity, push-pull effect, and elderly migration in ageing China
Visualising global currents of international students between 1999 and 2018
The flows of international students are like the currents of the oceans, not only affecting the individuals adrift in them but the global circulation of policy, economics and academics as a whole, bearing pros and cons for each country or region along the way. To date, there has not been a detailed and elaborate description of the fluxes of international students over decades. In light of the research gap, the article utilises the chord diagram t…
Unravelling intercity mobility patterns in China using multi-year big data: A city classification based on monthly fluctuations and year-round trends
Detecting spatial heterogeneity in the determinants of intercity migration in China
Spatial variations exist in migration patterns and the processes causing the observed patterns. Yet, far less attention has been given to the latter. Even if a few studies have engaged in spatial heterogeneity in the process of migration, the scale multiplicity is not emphasised. This research aims to address these gaps with evidence from Chinese cities. To facilitate international comparisons, we use data on intercity migration over a 5‐year int…
Understanding Intercity Mobility Patterns in Rapidly Urbanizing China, 2015-2019: Evidence from Longitudinal Poisson Gravity Modeling
Whereas much academic effort has been devoted to the physics and geographies of daily intraregion individual movements using new big data on human locations, systematic econometric modeling of the spatiotemporal logic of periodic interregional mobility has received limited attention. Using a multiyear, location-based service data set of daily intercity mobility from the Internet company Tencent, this study systematically examines China’s intercit…
Different roads take me home: The nonlinear relationship between distance and flows during China’s Spring Festival
Human mobility modelling has attracted scholarly attention from physics-based methods and social science explanatory approaches. However, there is limited knowledge of the nonlinear relationship of flows and distance in intercity mobility and regional differences in the nonlinear relationship. Focusing on China’s long-distance and large-scale mobility during the Spring Festival, this paper develops a framework to explain the nonlinear relationshi…
How attitudes from urban residents shape settlement plans of rural-to-urban migrants in China: The role of hukou
Understanding the geographical process of the decline in manufacturing employment in China between 2000 and 2020
The decline in manufacturing employment has emerged as a global demographic phenomenon in recent decades. However, previous research has primarily focused on the national level, resulting in limited geographical insights into the spatial variations of this decline at more minor scales. Our paper decodes the long‐term geographical process of manufacturing employment decline at the city level in China from an “industry‐population‐place” perspective…
Rethinking the nexus between urban amenities and migrants’ hukou transfer intentions in China: The role of the hukou value
The household registration (hukou) system differentiates China from Western countries regarding restrictions on internal migration, the allocation of public resources, and the country's urbanization and development patterns. Although studies have investigated the influence of urban amenities on China's internal migration, limited attention has been given to clarifying the intricate role of hukou values behind these amenities. The research revisit…
Resilience and recovery: Evaluating Covid pandemic effects on ride-hailing mobility and driver income dynamics
Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China
Visualising intercity mobility patterns during China’s Spring Festival travel rush under the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper introduces a new tool, the lunar phase visualisation, and conducts a multitemporal analysis of the spatial patterns and their changes in China’s intercity mobility during the Spring Festival travel rush between 2019 and 2023. By associating the volume of intercity movement in China across various years with lunar phases, it illustrates that during both the return home (first 20 days) and back-to-city (last 20 days) periods, intercity m…
Covid-19 pandemic and road infrastructure exerted stage-dependent spatiotemporal influences on inter-city road travel in China
As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes and travel resumes, it is important to understand how the influences on inter-city road travel varied across different stages of the pandemic. However, the underlying spatiotemporal heterogeneity in the relationship between the mobility shifts and its determinants at different pandemic stages is unclear. This research divides the pandemic timeline into four distinct stages based on the data from the Chinese Health…
China (30 works) · Geography (27 works) · Economics (20 works) · Economic geography (17 works) · Population (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Demographic economics (14 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (14 works) · Demography (13 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (13 works)