Based on a new and recent set of data on economic development in the Chinese prefectures, the paper investigates the impact of different levels of spatial aggregation on the assessment of regional disparities in China. We analyze the structure of inequalities in the light of a component analysis...

The complexity of China's regional economy requires the development of new data bases with a high degree of disaggregation. This paper introduces a prefecture-level data base which has been created from the published data dispersed across the provincial yearbooks of the PRC. The validity of the...