Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore patterns as well as determinants of regional specialisation in China … employed in academic analysis as well as personal interviews in China, structural determinants and driving forces of … China's biopharmaceutical industry is determined by both, government policy and the strategic location decisions of …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate determinants of regional disparities in China's agricultural … labor productivity growth. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first decomposes the regional disparity in China … 2005, although the growth of China's agricultural labor productivity mainly depended on the accumulation of inputs …

(NSC) development at county level in China, and by which to evaluate the level of NSC construction among different regions … in China. Then, some problems of rural development can be found and corresponding measures can be proposed, which could … index system was used to evaluate the level of NSC construction in 28 counties of China in 2007. Finally, we calculated …

converge and that regions in inland China are well integrated with other regions and sectors of the economy. Large …

Purpose – The Northeast of the People's Republic of China is now termed the “rustbelt” of the country: there is a need … to reform and restructure enterprises in the region. China's major industrialization is underway elsewhere, with … China – Dalian, Changchun and 1Harbin. The empirical results are complemented with official statistics and other government …