Li, Shantong (contributor); Xu, Zhaoyuan (contributor) - 2008
declined significantly from 1978 to 1990, the first stage of the PRC’s reform and opening
(Jian, Sachs, and Warner, 1996; Lin … in regional disparity was
due mainly to the character of the rural reform in this stage. The reform heavily promoted the … national average—benefited highly from the reform.
However, a trend of continuous regional disparity has emerged since the …