China has long wanted and envisioned the development of self-innovation as a means to drive its economy to one of the most productive in the world. Adopting this goal is a clear sign that China understands the Adam Smith and Schumpeterian argument that innovation is the primary way that...

This study focuses on the measure of inter-regional trade of virtual water, defined as the freshwater consumed for producing traded goods and services, to explain the relationship between China’s regional virtual water and the increasing water demand. By using the multi-regional input-output...

Data for the Chinese province of Hubei are used to assess the performance of Kronenberg’s CHARM, a method that takes explicit account of cross-hauling when constructing regional input-output tables. A key determinant of cross-hauling is held to be the heterogeneity of the products of...