Are China's provincial boundaries misaligned?

Sng, Tuan-Hwee; Chia, Pei Zhi; Feng, Chen‐Chieh; Wang, Yichen

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.07.009

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“…Regional delineation is a classic topic for geographers and other closely allied disciplines stretching back more than one century [28], which attempts to divide space into stable territorial regions relying on physical proximity, economic integration, and cultural similarity [25]. Due to the complex and highly heterogeneous distribution of features which characterize human geography [29], a regionalization scheme that combines both spatial laws and practical framework remains very much alive and unsolved.…”

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Delineating the Regional Economic Geography of China by the Approach of Community Detection

Tang

Long

2019

Sustainability

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With the obvious regionalization trend in the new period of urbanization in China, the scientific delineation of functional regions (FRs) at different scales has become a heated topic recently. Since the 20th century, western academia has formed a basic idea of metropolitan areas’ (MAs) delineation based on population density and commuting rate, for which the subjectivity of threshold setting is difficult to overcome. In this study, community detection algorithms from the field of network science are employed, namely the Louvain algorithm with adjustable resolutions and Combo with high-precision output, respectively. We take the nationwide car-hailing data set as an example to explore a bottom-up method for delineating regional economic geography at different scales based on the interconnection strength between nodes. It was found that most of the prefecture-level cities in China have a dominant commuting region and two or three secondary commuting sub-regions, while regional central cities have extended their commuting hinterlands over jurisdictional boundaries, which is not common due to the larger initial administrative divisions and the comprehensive development niveau of cities. The feasibility and limitation of community detection partitioning algorithms in the application of regional science are verified. It is supposed to be widely used in regional delimitation supported by big data. Both of the two algorithms show a shortage of ignorance of spatial proximity. It is necessary to explore new algorithms that can adjust both accuracy and spatial distance as parameters.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Delineating the Regional Economic Geography of China by the Approach of Community Detection

Tang

Long

2019

Sustainability

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“…As shown, none of these specifications invalidates the importance of provincial capital status. Following the discussion of provincial boundary settings in Section 3, we also separate the provinces into two groups by the level of strategy used in boundary setting (measured by Sng et al 2018). As shown in Appendix D.5, our IV estimates and first-stage results hold within both groups, further suggesting that the role of hierarchical distance holds even if strategy is applied to provincial boundary setting.…”

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“…of Economics and Statistics Just Accepted MS. rest by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(1739) for the Ming Dynasty) and showed that provinces were defined before a prefecture was designed as a provincial capital, we remain uncertain whether provincial boundary changes affect our findings. Relying on insights fromSng et al (2018), we divide the provinces into two groups. The non-strategic group includes provinces whose boundaries were congruent with the hypothetical boundaries predicted by geography, and the strategic group refers to those that exhibit clear incongruence.…”

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The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy: Evidence from Regime Changes in China, 1000-2000 C.E.

Bai

Jia

2021

The Review of Economics and Statistics

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We study how political hierarchy shapes regional development in China, using variations driven by regime changes during the 1000–2000 period. We find that changes in the status of the provincial capital led to the rise and decline of different prefectures as measured by population and urbanization. Two other novel findings stand out: (1) the economic advantages of the provincial capitals did not persist if they lost their political status, and (2) political hierarchy shaped economic development not only through public employment but also through the development of important infrastructure, such as transportation networks. Our findings highlight the importance of politics in determining the locations of economic activities.

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“…Thus, the objects of analysis are Chinese regions forming the highest level of administrative division in China, which include provinces, direct-administered municipalities (municipalities), and autonomous regions (AR). Despite some fragmentation of a number of provinces, 1 the boundaries of regions as a whole are quite stable (Sng et al, 2018), which is facilitated by their economic and geographical integrity, the peculiarities of traditions and way of life, significant (in a number of cases) linguistic differences with a common hieroglyphic writing system, gravitation towards the intraregional economic center, and the presence of specific production skills of the population. Today, there are 31 regions in China (22 provinces, 5 ARs, 2 and 4 municipalities 3 ), each of which has a wide range of rights, has its own legislature and government, while being subordinate to the central authorities.…”

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Trade Barriers Between Chinese Regions and Russia

Izotov

2021

Reg. Res. Russ.

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Official Chinese statistics data were applied to analyze the dynamics and structure of trade interactions between regions of China and Russia; the border effect on export and import flows was estimated. The analysis showed that import flows from Russia to China are distinguished by a significantly greater uneven distribution between Chinese regions as compared to export ones. Assessment of the gravity dependences indicated that, compared with other countries, the border effect on exports from Chinese regions to Russia was characterized by rather high values, and the barriers hindering access of Russian products to the markets of Chinese regions were higher in ad valorem equivalent than for other foreign countries. Based on the estimates obtained, it was revealed that in recent years, the import of Russian products to Chinese regions has faced large barriers compared to export of products from Chinese regions to the Russian market. It has been determined that with the leveling of barriers, the advantages of access to the Russian market will further strengthen the coastal Chinese regions, and exports to Russia may become even more uneven between Chinese regions. It is shown that with a significant reduction in barriers, imports from Russia to Chinese regions can increase due to an increase in the supply of Russian products to almost all Chinese regions. The estimates give grounds to state that Russian suppliers need to diversify the supply of goods between Chinese regions in order to bypass intermediaries and develop new regional sales markets in China.

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Are China's provincial boundaries misaligned?

Cited by 17 publications

References 25 publications

Delineating the Regional Economic Geography of China by the Approach of Community Detection

Delineating the Regional Economic Geography of China by the Approach of Community Detection

The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy: Evidence from Regime Changes in China, 1000-2000 C.E.

Trade Barriers Between Chinese Regions and Russia

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