Journal
CHINESE GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE
Volume 24, Issue 6, Pages 706-716Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11769-014-0664-7
Keywords
industrial relocation; economic growth disparity; system dynamics (SD) modeling; China
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41171099]
- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2012CB955802]
- National Social Science Foundation of China [10ZD022]
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The economic growth of China has led to increasing growth disparities between regions. Such disparities are uncontrolled and are severely negative symptoms in the process of economic development. On the basis of system dynamics (SD) modeling and the relationship between industrial relocation and regional economic growth, we construct a model of the interrelationship between the two aforementioned phenomena. The model is an effective and creative exploration for examining effects of industrial relocation on Chinese regional economic growth disparities. The SD model is employed in this study to build an inter-regional labor migration SD model, an inter-regional capital migration SD model, an intra-industry SD model, an intra-regional population SD model, and an intra-regional SD model which are based on realities in labor and capital flow from the view of industrial relocation. VENSIM software is utilized to perform a system simulation based on the data of the eastern, middle, and western regions from 2000 to 2010. Results show that industrial relocation gradually narrows the relative disparity in GDP among the three regions. Moreover, the absolute one is enlarged continuously. The absolute and relative disparities in per capita GDP among eastern, middle, and western regions generally exhibit decreasing trends.
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