秦巴山区是我国11 个连片贫困区之一且生态价值极为突出，区域实现更高质量发展具有重要意义。本文在系统调研区域内地级市经济社会发展情况的基础上，重点对环秦巴山区域不同发展水平的城市空间相关性、产业结构的相似度进行定量分析。结果表明，区域内中心城市的辐射带动作用较弱，与贫困落后地区尚未形成联动发展；区域内产业高度同质化成为制约内生经济增长动力的瓶颈因素；基于行政区的发展模式使得区域的生态屏障功能被过度“碎片化”，导致区域生态环境压力加大。建议着眼于秦巴山脉生态系统的整体性，转变发展理念，突破一地一域的行政限制和条块分割，加强国家层面的顶层设计和战略引导，以“协同”为核心来推动区域更高质量发展。

The Qinba mountainous area is one of the 11 contiguous poverty-stricken areas in China and has remarkable ecological values. It is significant to push higher quality development in this region. Based on a systematic investigation on economic and social development in regional cities, this study made a quantitative analysis on spatial correlation and industrial structure similarity among cities with different levels of development surrounding the Qinba mountainous area. The results reveal that the core cities in this region play a relatively weak role in stimulating the development of surrounding areas and have almost no interaction with the underdeveloped areas; the high industry homogeneity has become the bottleneck restricting the endogenous economic growth; and the ecological screen function of the Qinba mountainous area has been excessively “fragmented” due to the development pattern based on jurisdiction, resulting in increasingly serious ecological problems. In view of this, this study suggests that we should focus on the integrity of the Qinba Mountain ecosystem, change the idea of development, break the administrative restrictions, strengthen the toplevel design and strategic guidance at the national level, and promote the higher quality development of the Qinba mountainous area in a more synergy way.