A study on the network structure of China Mainland and Hong Kong SAR film co-production industry

• 1、School of Economics & Trade,Hunan University,Changsha 410006

Abstract：The rapid development of the Chinese film industry is inseparable from the frequent cooperation and interaction between China Mainland and Hong Kong SAR based on "co-production."Therefore, from the perspective of network embeddedness, this paper takes 641 co-production films between 1958 and 2018 as samples, it is divided into 6 stages according to the co-production process. Then, based on the division of value chain, industry networks of co-production films between the Mainland and Hong Kong are constructed, using social network analysis to describe the structureand evolution process, analyze the interaction between the Mainland and the Hong Kong film industry embedded in it. The results show that: In terms of network scale and network density, the network scale at the city level has increased nearly 16 times, and the network density has decreased by 1/2, whilethe connectivity at the city level increased 17 times. In terms of network pattern, the industry network at the city level basically shows a dual core edge structure of " a main core and a sub-core ". With the deepening of the interaction, the main core node is transformed from Hong Kong to Beijing.In terms of the distribution of network power, the Gini coefficient of the distribution of network power at the city level rises from 0.63 to 0.89, and the nodes at the city level tend to be highly open in geographical space. Hong Kong has shifted from focusing on building links with Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to interacting with more professional film cities.

Keywords： Network embeddedness China Mainland and Hong Kong SAR Film co-production