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The Distributing Pattern And Spatial Polarization Effect Of Chinese Migration Population In 1990s

Posted on:2007-06-25Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L YuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360185462208Subject:Human Geography
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Since the late 1970's, unprecedented changes have occurred in the development philosophy and the economic landscape of the People's Republic of China. After decades of redistributive policies that attempted to achieve spatially balanced development, regional policy during the post-Mao period has brought about a spatial restructuring that has resulted in new patterns of uneven regional development. This paper reviews the logic of China's new regional policy and analyzes its relationship with recent patterns of uneven regional development.There is a fundamental paradox in China's regional development. After 1978, when China shifted its regional policy from one of egalitarianism to one of rapid growth in the coastal region advantaged by large investments and preferential policies, regional inequality seems to have increased. Measures of the inequality of inter-provincial outputs demonstrate, contrary to expectation, that regional development has become more equal. This paper seeks to resolve this paradox by offering a comprehensive and multiscalar review of recent patterns and changes in regional output and investment. Analysis of these changes in regional development at multiple scales of resolution shows that the egalitarian interpretations of past studies has been based on coarse scales of analysis which mask local realities and thus reinforce the myth of even development. When these egalitarian findings are examined at finer scales, the effects of selective and concentrated development in designated locations become obvious. The analysis presented here identifies a new corridor of growth in coastal provinces and localities that have benefited disproportionately from the new regional policy. Their advances counterpoised by the slow growth of a few older economic centers go a long way in explaining the apparent declines in regional inequality.This paper also argues that changes in uneven regional development should be interpreted in the context of Chinese political economy. In a socialist system which accords the ultimate power of resource allocation (especially investment) to the state, China's leadership is constantly confronted, by allocationDilemmas by choices between national economic growth and national integration and stability, and between efficiency and equity. The policies that ensue...
Keywords/Search Tags:Population migration, Development of regional economic, Factor of population migration, Spatial centralization of migration, Spatial statistics, Metropolitan Coordinating Region
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