The Core-Periphery Structure in the Yangtze River Delta: An Enterprise Linkage Perspective, 1978–2019

Table 2

Proportion of headquarters-branch enterprise linkages in cities in Jiangsu Province.

	1978 (%)	1992 (%)	2003 (%)	2009 (%)	2019 (%)
Nanjing	—	10.99	19.26	20.62	18.80
Wuxi	—	10.44	16.76	14.85	13.11
Xuzhou	—	8.24	4.88	4.10	3.72
Changzhou	—	6.59	5.21	4.98	6.48
Suzhou	18.18	22.53	24.14	29.07	31.94
Nantong	72.73	9.89	7.93	7.07	8.41
Lianyungang	—	8.79	2.90	2.57	1.35
Huai’an	—	0.55	2.57	2.15	2.02
Yancheng	—	0.55	4.62	3.76	3.54
Yangzhou	9.09	6.04	3.40	3.65	3.85
Zhenjiang	—	6.04	3.79	2.85	2.80
Taizhou	—	9.34	3.79	3.31	2.78
Suqian	—	—	0.74	1.00	1.20