Regional Disparity And Dynamic Evolution About China's New Industrialization Growth Performance

By using slacks-based sequential directional distance function, this paper calculates the new industrialization growth performance of China's provincial industrial sectors in 1985-2009. Then it analyzes the characteristics of regional distribution and its evolution about new industrialization growth performance with an emphasis on the perspective of regional development strategy and industrial policy. We find that regional imbalanced development strategy implemented at the beginning of reform and opening up promoted the eastern industry while it also significantly widened the gap between coastal and inland industry. Under the influence of highly energy-consuming industries moving westward, series of regional coordination policies implemented after 90s did not effectively change the polarization pattern of new industrialization between coastal and inland industry. Upgrading of industrial structure due to high-tech industry clustering in eastern have successfully offset the negative effects caused by the accelerated development of heavy industry since 1998. Thus it highlights the importance of high-tech industry in growth mode transformation of new industrialization in the future.