A new statistical dynamic analysis of ecological niches for China’s financial centres

This study, undertaken from the perspective of statistical dynamics, proposes the treatment of financial centres as an ecosystem, creates a multidimensional financial centre niche (FC-niche) under given generalised entropy and constraints, and interprets the evolutionary process of an FC-niche with dynamic equations obtained from the maximum generalised entropy principle (MGEP). To solve these dynamic equations, a self-organised feature map (SOM) is designed. Finally, the values and evolutionary rules of FC-niches in China’s 29 major cities are simulated as a case study.