b"Exploring the development model of the High-speed Rail New District in the periphery of China's small and medium-sized citiesJin YuxiangThe construction period of China's new high-speedpaper discusses the developmental game relationship railway (HSR) has been very short and accompaniedbetween large cities and small and medium-sized by a vigorous new city movement around the stationscities along the HSR line and introduces the out-of-that have been built to serve it. For small and medium- way accessibility of HSR stations to quantify the basic sized cities along the line, these new stations havestatus of the relationship between stations and urban created a construction boom around them so areareas. Then, it explores the reason why most of the generally regarded by the local government as a newdesigns of the public squares that front the stations lead driver of growth. However, the construction of the high- to difficulties in the development of the surrounding speed rail network is controlled by the national railwayareas according to a three-layer structure theory.department, and so the local government has little say in the location of the new stations which are oftenAfter theoretical research, this paper takes the HSR located in peripheral areas of small and medium-sizednew city of Zhanjiang city as an example to carry out cities. As a result, the new HSR has failed to improve theempirical research on the core issues. From the high-accessibility of citizens in these cities. There has beenspeed railway new city along the western coastal high-little research carried out on the impact of new HSRspeed railway in Guangdong Province, the industrial stations and routes although it is clear that expectedorientation of Xicheng New District in Zhanjiang City and growth outcomes have not always been achieved. the accessibility of Zhanjiang West Station are discussed This paper summarizes the current situation andin-depth and conclusions are drawn. Finally, the theory dilemmas of the development of HSR new towns inand methods of the design guidelines of the HSR public smaller cities. square area are analysed to provide better outcomes.From the perspective of regional space economy, this Distance from station to city centre of HSR cities along the Beijing-Shanghai HSR lineSource: Tuo C, 2012 142P5-20200301-FOLIO RESEARCH.indd 13 2020/3/4 23:14:19"