China's opening up and regional economic development

Author: Lan Yisheng
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: The active historical role of regional disparity-forming factors such as capital flow gaps and economic development potential, the mutually beneficial but unequal economic relationship formed between foreign investors, the eastern region, and central-western regions through exports and the "labor tide," the need to strengthen the "secondary regional dual economy" structure in central-western and northeastern regions to stimulate and accelerate endogenous economic growth in lagging areas, and the policy control over "efficiency-first" and "fairness-first" approaches at different stages of economic development both domestically and regionally are some novel insights with logical analysis and explanation. These reflect the author's broad knowledge and the ability to discover developmental patterns and logical relationships in complex socio-economic phenomena. Of course, the series of economic policy recommendations and development proposals put forward in the book still await further testing in practice.