Based on the annual valueadded data of 19782016, this paper analyzes and compares the spatial characteristics of the real economy, the fictitious economy and the overall economy from the perspectives of spatial distribution and spatial correlation. The results show that: China's real economy and fictitious economy have obvious spatial heterogeneity, which is reflected in regional differences, spatial autocorrelation characteristics and regional spatial relations. On the other hand, we find that the spatial characteristics of China's real economy are similar to those of the overall economy, while the fictitious economy doesn't have the similarity. In fact, the formulation and implementation of China's regional policy often focus on the real economy, while the attention paid to the spatial balanced development of fictitious economy is insufficient. To a certain extent, it leads to many spatial heterogeneity problems of fictitious economy, such as great regional disparity, low level of global spatial autocorrelation and the alienation of spatial association structure. In the process of formulating and implementing the regional coordinated development strategy, considering the spatial heterogeneity of the real economy and the fictitious economy and reducing the spatial mismatch of the two types of economy are helpful to promote the benign interaction between China's real economy and fictitious economy and build a more robust spatial distribution.
