The creative economy is a new economy

which has developed in the new economic age

which advocates the creativity and wisdom of individuals

advocates innovation

and emphasizes the support and promotion of culture

arts and technology innovation to the economy based on individual creativity. The quality and quantity of the development of creative industry has become one of the important marks of the 21st century to measure a country or city's comprehensive competitive advantage. However

the influence of higher new technology

traffic Network and Information network on urban agglomeration

the role of creative industry in the urban agglomeration

and how the influence degree has not been paid enough attention by the academia

and this is the important theory of the continuous promotion of urban agglomeration competitive advantage and the difficulties in the practice of city industry policy. Taking the Yangtze River Delta Urban agglomeration (16 cities) as the research object

the development trend of creative industry in Yangtze River Delta is judged from the angle of comprehensive measurement of the influence factors of creative industry Development: (1) combing the domestic and foreign research to clarify the space of creative industry

and combining the theory of urban system and creative stratum and from its core components creative environment

creative ability

creative vitality to build a measure of urban agglomeration creative industry development Impact Factor Index system; (2) using the factor analysis method in the 16 cities of Yangtze River Delta 2005 and 2009 To identify the main factors affecting the development of urban agglomeration creative industry: City convenience

the scale and quality of creative class

the economic base of creative industry

the intensity of economy input

the city leisure facilities

and the top 3 influence degree; (3) Using hierarchical clustering method to measure the influence factors of creative industry synthetically

It is found that the development level of creative industries in the Yangtze River delta is rising rapidly the gap between the cities is shrinking

and the creative industry affects the evolution trend of the Yangtze River delta is weak but has already started

that is

with the comprehensive index of the influence factor of the development of the creative industry to observe the city of the Yangtze River delta-scale

Shanghai is still in the first place

but the 2nd level

Zhenjiang

Taizhou

Changzhou is better than Ningbo

Yangzhou pattern.