Integrated Circuit Enterprises Dataset using Qichacha and
Baidu Map platforms and Data Mining Technology: Taking the Pearl River Delta
Region of China (1980–2020) as An Example
Wang, P. H.1,2 Zha, R. B.2* Huang, J. C.1,3,4* Huang, Y.2 Du, S. Y.2 Xu, J. R2
1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural
Resources Research, CSC, Beijing 100101, China;
2. College of Cultural Tourism and Public
Administration, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350108, China;
3. Key
Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, CAS, Beijing 100101,
China;
4.
College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Abstract: The integrated
circuit (IC) industry is the foundation of the electronic information industry,
the core of transforming traditional industries, and the key to promoting the
continuous development of emerging strategic industries. As the Pearl River
Delta (PRD) region hosts one of the agglomerations of China's IC industry and
the frontline of China’s reforming and opening up, a spatial and temporal study
of the distribution of IC enterprises in the PRD region could deepen our
understanding of the current state of IC enterprises in China and provide a
lesson for the development of IC industries in other regions. This paper
collects, processes, and summarizes data based on the enterprise information
publishing platform Qichacha (https://www.qcc.com/) and the Baidu map opening
platform (https://lbsyun.baidu.com/) to obtain data on the geographical locations,
establishment dates, and operation statuses of IC enterprises in the PRD
region, and further uses the kernel density to explore the spatio-temporal distribution of
IC enterprise in the PRD region. The dataset is stored in .shp format and consists
of 7 data files with a data volume of 45.8 MB (compressed to 1 file, 710 KB).
Keywords: Integrated Circuits; Pearl River Delta region; Enterprise; Spatio-temporal distribution
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3974/geodp.2022.04.14
CSTR: https://cstr.escience.org.cn/CSTR:20146.14.2022.04.14
Dataset Availability Statement:
The dataset
supporting this paper was published and is accessible through the Digital Journal of
Global Change Data Repository at: https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2022.10.07.V1 or https://cstr.escience.org.cn/CSTR:20146.11.2022.10.07.V1.
1 Introduction
The integrated circuit (IC) industry is a leader in China’s
national economy. It has produced a new generation of information technologies
with epoch-making significance, such as personal computers, the Internet, the
Internet of Things, smartphones, digital images, big data, cloud computing, and
artificial intelligence. Its applications have penetrated all aspects of
China’s economy and become an important part of people's production and lives.
In the current international environment, the IC industry has become a
strategic of China’s economy. It is not only an important factor in
international political and economic competition but also the industry with the
most intense international competition and the most thorough global resource
flow and allocation. If a country (or a region) can occupy a commanding
position in the IC industry, it can earn large profits on the world market and
lead the trend of world economic development. However, too much reliance on
foreign IC industry, could lead to constrain in key areas. Based on the dual
needs of international competition and national security, the development of
China's IC industry is increasingly urgent [3,4].
The
development of China’s IC industry began in the late 1970s. After nearly 30
years of exploration, it entered a high-speed development stage in 2009. From
2009 to 2019, the average annual sales of China's IC industry increased by
64.53 billion yuan. At the same time, China has become the world's largest
semiconductor market. Despite rapid development and a broad market, the IC
industry is generally weak, the industry scale is small, core products are
heavily dependent on imports, the scale of trade deficit is expanding year by
year, and an independent and controllable industrial chain has not yet been
formed. A “lack of core and soul” seriously threatens the industry’s safety and
restricts its development [5]. Until now, research on the IC industry has
mostly focused on industrial chain innovation [6,7], development contexts and
patterns [5, 8], industrial collaboration [9], and other fields, while there
has been less research on the spatial distribution of IC enterprises [10].
The
PRD region is one of the agglomeration areas of China’s IC industry [11], and
the frontier on which China’s mainland is reforming and opening up [5]. A
spatiotemporal study of the distribution of IC enterprises in the PRD region
could help deepen our understanding of the development of China’s IC industry
and provide lessons for the development of IC industries in other regions [12].
For this reason, this dataset provides spatial distribution data on IC
enterprises in the PRD region. These data include the establishment dates of IC
enterprises, their home counties and cities, the industrial division of labor,
and other information, that can provide basic data support for related
industries and contribute to the development of China’s IC industry.
2 Metadata of the Dataset
The metadata for the IC Enterprises Dataset using the Qichacha
and Baidu Map Platforms and Data Mining Technology: Taking the Pearl River
Delta Region of China (1980-2020) as An Example dataset is summarized in Table
1. It includes the dataset’s full name, short name, authors, year of the
dataset, temporal resolution, spatial resolution, data format, data size, data
files, data publisher, and data sharing policy.
3 Methods
The basic data for this study came from the
Qichacha website. From this website, 14195 enterprises in nine cities in the
PRD region were identified using the keywords “integrated circuit” and “chip”,
and the name, registration location, and establishment date, of each enterprise
were recorded along with other relevant information. As the enterprises’
geographic coordinates were not provided by the Qichacha website, they were
obtained using the Baidu Map open platform based on the enterprises’ geographic
locations. The division of labor of
Table 1 Metadata summary of the IC Enterprises Dataset
using Qichacha and Baidu Map platforms and Data Mining Technology: Taking the
Pearl River Delta Region of China (1980-2020) as An Example.
Items
|
Description
|
Dataset
full name
|
Integrated
Circuit Enterprises Dataset using Qichacha and Baidu Map platforms and Data
Mining Technology: Taking the Pearl River Delta Region of China (1980-2020)
as An Example
|
Dataset
short name
|
PRD_IC_1980-2020
|
Authors
|
WANG Peihan, Institute of Geographic Sciences and
Natural Resources Research, CSC, College of Cultural Tourism and Public
Administration, Fujian Normal University, wph1996@126.com
ZHA
Ruibo, College of Cultural Tourism and Public Administration, Fujian Normal
University, rbzha@fjnu.edu.cn
HUANG
Yue, College of Cultural Tourism and Public Administration, Fujian Normal
University, hyueyuey@163.com
DU
Shuying, College of Cultural Tourism and Public Administration, Fujian Normal
University, huoying_ll@126.com
XU
Jinrong, College of Cultural Tourism and Public Administration, Fujian Normal
University, xjr9018@163.com
|
Geographical
region
|
the
Pearl River Delta Region of China
|
Year
|
1980-2020
|
Temporal
resolution
|
Yearly
|
Data
format
|
.shp
|
|
|
Data
size
|
45.8MB
(710KB after compressed)
|
|
|
Foundation(s)
|
National
Natural Science Foundation of China (42201267); General Humanities and Social
Sciences Project of the Ministry of Education (18YJCZH007)
|
Data
publisher
|
Global Change Research Data Publishing &
Repository, http://www.geodoi.ac.cn
|
Address
|
No.
11A, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
|
Data
sharing policy
|
Data from the Global Change Research Data Publishing &
Repository includes metadata, datasets (in the Digital Journal of Global
Change Data Repository), and publications (in the Journal of
Global Change Data & Discovery). Data sharing policy includes: (1) Data are openly
available and can be free downloaded via the Internet; (2) End users are
encouraged to use Data subject to citation; (3) Users, who are by definition
also value-added service providers, are welcome to redistribute Data
subject to written permission from the GCdataPR Editorial Office and the issuance
of a Data redistribution license; and (4) If Data are used to compile
new datasets, the ‘ten percent principal’ should be followed such that Data
records utilized should not surpass 10% of the new dataset contents, while
sources should be noted in suitable places in the new dataset[7]
|
Communication
and searchable system
|
DOI,
DCI, CSCD, WDS/ISC, GEOSS, China GEOSS, Crossref
|
the enterprises in this
industrial chain was determined by manually consulting their websites or
inquiring over the telephone.
4 Data Result
4.1 Data Composition
Our dataset contains a directory
of IC enterprises in nine cities in nine cities in the PRD. Information on
14,195 enterprises was collected from the Qichacha website. The dataset was
composed of spatial point data stored in a .shp format data file. The attribute
fields recorded are shown in Table 2.
Table 2 Attribute
fields in the dataset
Number
|
Field
name
|
Field
Content Example
|
1
|
Name
|
Shenzhen
Hangshun Chip Technology Development Co., Ltd., Guangdong Leadyo IC Testing
Co., Ltd., Storart Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.……
|
2
|
Status
|
Existing,
Revocation, Cancelled……
|
3
|
Registered
|
1041,
10230, 9954……
|
4
|
Date_of_estibilish
|
2013/8/15、2017/5/12、2013/10/14……
|
5
|
Province
|
Guangdong
|
6
|
City
|
Shenzhen,
Guangzhou, Huizhou……
|
7
|
District
|
Baoan,
Huangpu, Xiangzhou……
|
8
|
Industrial
|
Fabless,
Downstream enterprise, Foundry……
|
9
|
Data_source
|
www.qcc.com
|
4.2 Data Result
4.2.1 Spatial
Distribution
At the county and district
levels, as shown in Figure 1, the regions with the most IC enterprises are
Shenzhen, Dongguan, Huicheng District of Huizhou, Huangpu District of Guangzhou,
Shunde District of Foshan, Zhongshan and Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai. The
number of enterprises in other regions is small. In general, Shenzhen is the
core, and enterprises in the Pearl River estuary are concentrated in an
inverted U shape.

Figure 1 Spatial distribution of IC enterprises in
the PRD
ArcGIS
software was used to calculate the degree of spatial autocorrelation of IC
enterprises in the PRD. Moran’s I index was 0.793 and the z value was 10.100,
indicating that the spatial distribution of IC enterprises in the PRD is highly
agglomerated. Figure 2 shows the kernel density distribution of these
enterprises. In Figure 1, we can see that the kernel density in Shenzhen is
significantly higher than in other regions. In addition, there is a certain
degree of concentration in central Dongguan, Tianhe District, and Huangpu
District of Guangzhou, Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai, central Zhongshan, and
Huicheng District of Huizhou. The northern industrial park of Baoan District
has the highest value of kernel density.

Figure 2 Kernel Density Distribution of IC enterprises
in the PRD
4.2.2 Temporal
Evolution
To explore the establishment and
development of IC enterprises in the PRD region, enterprises were divided into
eight categories according to the date of establishment, as shown in Figure 3:
“1980-1984,” “1985-1999,” “1990-1994,” “1995-1999,” “2000-2004,” “2005-2009,”
“2010-2014,” and “2015-2020.”

Figure 3 Number of IC enterprises
established in each county and city in the
PRD every five years from 1980 to 2020
From 1980 to 1984, IC enterprises appeared
sporadically. In Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Foshan, and Huizhou, these enterprises
began to appear, but the overall number was small. Their quantity did not vary
significantly across counties and districts.
From 1985 to 1989, newly established
enterprises were mainly concentrated in the east of the Pearl River Estuary.
Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai, Huangpu District of Guangzhou, and Conghua also
established IC enterprises, and the overall number increased. Nanshan District
of Shenzhen had the largest increase.
From 1990 to 1994, the number and scope of
enterprises increased. Jiangmen and Zhongshan also established them, and
Shenzhen gradually opened a quantitative gap with other cities.
From 1995 to 1999, enterprises were
gradually concentrated along the Pearl River Estuary. Shenzhen and Dongguan
gradually opened a gap with other cities in terms of the number of
establishments.
From 2000 to 2004, Shenzhen’s growth rate
continued to accelerate. The number of enterprises in Nanshan District
increased by more than 100, followed by Baoan District, Futian District, and
Longgang District.
From 2005 to 2020, the number of IC
enterprises increased rapidly, and an inverted U-shaped distribution pattern
gradually formed along the Pearl River estuary, with the largest increase in Shenzhen.
In general, since the 1980s, selected
cities in the PRD have taken the lead in establishing IC enterprises, which
were initially concentrated on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary. In the
1990s, the number of enterprises and cities covered gradually increased.
Finally, in the 21st century, their number along the Pearl River Estuary
increased rapidly and gradually formed an inverted U-shaped distribution
pattern along the Pearl River Estuary. The number of companies established in
Shenzhen is far greater than that in other cities.
4.2.3 Industrial Division of
Enterprises
With the
development of the IC industry, a mature division of subindustries has emerged,
including upstream support, core design, manufacturing, seal testing, and
downstream demand enterprises. At the same time, some enterprises participate
in multiple divisions. To explore the division of labor among IC enterprises in
the PRD region, their positions in the industrial chain were divided into eight
categories based on telephone inquiries and the self-descriptions on their
websites: supporting, fabless, foundry, sealing testing, downstream; fabless
and foundry; foundry and sealing testing; and fabless, foundry, and sealing
testing enterprises(Table 3.)
Table 3 Industrial
Division of IC Enterprises
Industrial
Division
|
Supporting
Enterprises
|
Core
|
Downstream
Enterprises
|
Fabless
|
Foundry
|
Sealing
Testing
|
Fabless and
Foundry
|
Foundry and
Sealing Testing
|
Fabless, Foundry,
and Sealing Testing
|
Number of
enterprises
|
23
|
257
|
41
|
68
|
22
|
3
|
12
|
13766
|
Percentage/%
|
0.16%
|
1.81%
|
0.29%
|
0.48%
|
0.15%
|
0.02%
|
0.08%
|
96.98%
|
More than 97% of the IC
enterprises in the PRD are downstream demand enterprise, totaling 13,766. Most
uses finished ICs to manufacture products, mainly in home appliance
manufacturing, LED lighting, smart cards, etc. Upstream support enterprises are
very rare, accounting for only 0.16%. There are 403 core IC enterprises in
total, accounting for 2.84%, of which design enterprises account for 1.81% at
most, seal testing enterprises account for 0.48%, and manufacturing enterprises
account for 0.29%.
5 Discussion and Conclusion
In the face of an increasingly
complex international situation, the spatiotemporal evolution of the PRD region
holds great significance as a key cluster of China’s IC industry. The dataset
created for this study provides a directory of 14,195 IC enterprises
established in the PRD from 1980 to 2020 and includes detailed information on
their attributes, such as the name, business status, location, industrial
division, establishment date, and registered capital of each enterprise. In
terms of spatial distribution, it was found that the IC enterprises are
concentrated in an inverted U shape along the Pearl River estuary, with
Shenzhen as the core. Since the 1980s, IC enterprises first appeared in
selected cities and then gradually spread to all cities. In the 21st century,
especially the 2010s, the number of IC enterprises increased rapidly, and the
number of enterprises established in Shenzhen was far higher than that in other
cities. In terms of industrial divisions, the number of downstream demand
enterprises was highest, while that of upstream support enterprises was lowest.
Among the core IC enterprises, the number of fable enterprises was highest, and
that of foundry enterprises was lower. The enterprise information provided by
this dataset has great potential for data information mining and is expected to
provide a reference and data repository for research on the IC industry in the
PRD region.
Author Contributions
Wang, P. H. designed the algorithms of dataset and wrote the
data paper. Huang, Y., Du, S. Y., and Xu, J. R. contributed to the data
processing and analysis. Zha, R. B. and Huang, J. C. modified datasets and
papers.
Conflicts of Interest
The
authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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