Research Article

Research on the City Network Structure in the Yellow River Basin in China Based on Two-Way Time Distance Gravity Model and Social Network Analysis Method

Table 4

Average value of city network indexes and city development indexes of the Yellow River basin and its subregions.

SubregionNetwork density (%)Out- degree centrality (%)In- degree centrality (%)Out-closeness centrality (%)In-closeness centrality (%)Betweenness centrality (%)2019 urbanization rate (%)2019 average GDP (100 million yuan RMB)

Overall Yellow River basin13.220.831.336.737.69.7856.782262.27
Zhengzhou urban agglomeration55.533.947.364.770.79.7950.733904.85
Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration52.522.250.663.068.19.0860.994102.32
Taiyuan urban agglomeration50.033.055.060.865.012.6357.792755.56
Gansu-Shaanxi urban agglomeration26.519.879.127.939.129.2847.351301.30
Inner Mongolia-Ningxia urban agglomeration43.629.018.054.956.211.7544.101990.63