disparity is growing in China, and the Chinese government has
put huge amount of investment on the transport infrastructure
to cope with the world financial crisis in 2008 to stimulate
economic recovery. At the same time, the allocation in
transportation investment can directly affect spatial distribution
of transportation infrastructure in the future, so it can impact
broadly on the spatial distribution of economic activities
including the manufacturing location choice. One of the
prerequisites for effective transport investment policy is
accurate grasp in the distribution of transportation
infrastructure in reality. So it is practically significant
analyzing reasonableness of the spatial distribution of
transportation infrastructure in China before 2008, and whether
the Chinese government could reduce regional disparities by
reasonable distribution in new infrastructure investment. Based
on the development level of manufacturing, to a large extent,
reflects the level of capital stock in a region (Krugman, 1991),
manufacturing assets in 2006 account for 74.41% of total assets
and regional disparities are mainly from the second industry in
China where the manufacturing sector is dominant (Fan
Jianyong, 2008), this paper will pay attention to the impact of
manufacturing location choice from the transportation
infrastructure and examine the spatial distribution of transport
infrastructure and the reasonability in traffic investment
allocation in recent years