Standard Economic Regionalization

Since the reform and opening, China's economy in all regions has a great development, but the ensuing development gaps between different regions are expanding. This is China's most important issues of regional economic development. According to the Chinese scholars'current research , China's economy is still in the the left of Kuznets inverted "u" shaped curve, that is, so far regional economic disparities in China has not automatically shrunk with the economy development. It's required to implement policies of effective regional coordinated development, however, the object of regional development policy's that China's current eastern, central, western and northern regions'division can't meet China's regional economic development. Because the expaning regional disparities is not only between in the East, Center, West and the Northeast, but also the more apparent disparities is between provinces and cities. Therefore, the division of economic region conforming to China's national conditions is very meaningful. The key of this paper is to build an appropriate model for further regional division of our country, which is the division of the standard economic region. At present, China's economic scholars generally focus on the economic region of the East, Center, West and North-east, acording to the above analysis, the implementation of regional development policy in this level's economic region is not very effective. Therefore, this paper has innovation of economic region's level. The division of economic region in this paper is defined in the standard economic divisions. This article selected 16 indicators of 333 units of China's all Prefecture, Region, Autonomous prefecture and Union at the same administrative level in 2007, using principal component analysis ,the breaking point theoretical formula of Kang Weisi, and mapinfo software, the result is the division of 82 standard economic regions. 82 standard economic regions are also classified according to the stage of economic development.