The Western Region's Economic Growth Convergence And Its Influencing Factors

Since the reform and opening up, China's economic development obtained the achievement of world-wide attention, western region as well is such, especially since the strategy of western development had been carried out, the western region got a rapid economic growth, gross domestic product of the region raises to 66532.12 billion yuan from 16970.77 billion yuan, and it's economic average growth rate per annum is 14.64%(anti including Tibet), is higher than 14.15% in the whole country and the east for 14.42%. And the unceasing expansion tendency of income gap between eastern and western region had taken place in 2004. But accompany with the continuously increasing of the economy, the economic gap of each province in the western region also appears of continuously extensive trend.Although economic discrepancy extension in the region is hard to avoid during the economic development, margin exists over a long period of time and expands continuously, will not only effect whole commercial efficiency, but also be disadvantageous to the social welfare facility and social harmony. How explain along with the economic growth, the economic discrepancy between zones continuously expands, which has been the hot spot question of economic growth theory research.This paper usages economies convergence theory research whether exist the convergence phenomemon and exist which type of convergence before and after the western development since the reform and opening up, then analyses the influence factors of economic convergence of the western region.This paper sums up the situation of study and economic convergence theoretical, and analyses the actual state about economic disparities between different provinces in the western region, the conclusion as follow:since the reform and opening up, economic disparities of the west expands unceasingly, especially after the strategy of western development had been carried out, the speed increase obviously, the primary source of economic disparities in the region changed from the discrepancy of the two zones to the discrepancy between different provinces in the two zones.On the above-mentioned analysis foundation, this paper made an empirical test, using the panel data of the provinces in the western region from 1978 to 2009, the main conclusion is as follow:σ-convergence,β-convergence and club convergence are not existent in the region from 1978, but the conditionalβ-convergence is significant, the influencing factors include the level of human capital, marketing degree and industrial structure, analysis of these factors one by one, it puts forward corresponding policy...