With more than 700 million residents living in rural areas, China is still a predominantly rural country. But despite substantial improvements in standards of living, the Chinese countryside is largely lagging behind. This report analyzes the key socio-economic forces at work in China's rural...

After the founding of P.R. China, China’s regional development strategy experienced the evolution progress of “Balanced Development→Unbalanced Development→Coordinated development”. There exist twice “GO-WEST” campaigns which laid the foundation of modern industries for wetern...

Based on the cross-sectional data in 2013 of counties and introduces the spatial econometric model, this paper analyzes the agglomeration of economic growth and its influence factors among counties in Yunnan. The results indicate that the county economic growth has an obviously spatial...

This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the port of Shanghai, an analysis of the impact of the port on its territory and an assessment of policies in this field. It examines port performance over the last decades and identifies the principal factors that have contributed to...