The research method of space-time path can effectively solve the problem of the separation of time and space in economic geography study.The research adopts the space-time path method and selects 9 years'per capita GDP of Hunan province and prefecture-level cities between 1978 and 2015 as the basic data,aiming to study the path of the economic development level in Hunan province.The results are as follows:the economic development level in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan area has always been higher than provincial per capita.In contrast,in some prefecture-level cities like Shaoyang and Loudi,the gap ...
