Spatial Agglomeration Analysis of Urban Intelligent Development and Human Capital Mismatch

To gain a more intuitive understanding of the types of spatial agglomeration between cities, a local Moran index scatter diagram was utilized to examine the mismatch between urban intelligent development and human capital. The results, as presented in Figures 1 and 2, indicate that in representative years, there was significant spatial agglomeration of urban intelligent development and human capital mismatch around the origin. This further confirms the existence of spatial spillover effects.

More specifically, the majority of cities' intelligent development was concentrated in the first and third quadrants, indicating H-H agglomeration and L-L agglomeration, respectively. This finding aligns with both theory and reality and suggests that intelligent development is more likely to occur through regional cooperation rather than isolated development. On the other hand, the mismatch of human capital was primarily concentrated in the second and fourth quadrants, indicating a negative spatial correlation between urban human capital mismatch. This implies a trade-off relationship between neighboring cities in terms of human capital allocation.