Chen, Ting; Gu, Yizhen; Zou, Ben - 2022
This paper provides the first delineation of China’s commuting-based metropolitan areas (MAs) using a new source of … commuting flow data at fine geographic levels. We show that commutes in China are overwhelmingly short and largely confined by … administrative boundaries. Consequently, commuting-based MAs are relatively small, highly correlated with the administrative …