Place-based policies, state-led industrialisation, and regional development: Evidence from China's Great Western Development Programme

Jia, Junxue; Ma, Guonan; Qin, Cong; Wang, Liyan

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103398

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“…The difference-in-differences (DID) method is widely used in China’s policy evaluation, such as the western development [ 13 ]. In the context of the counties which were designated as NKEFZ by the government belong to a "treatment" group and other areas are in a control group.…”

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“…Their results indicate that the development priority zoning in these two areas influences urban growth in terms of economic growth, migration and land conversion. Li et al [ 13 ] used environmental data from 2009 to 2011 in 37 counties that were granted financial transfer from the government, and found significant correlations between environmental quality and transfer payment funds to the NKEFZ. Fu and Miao [ 14 ] argued that the central financial transfer payment to the local ecological function areas should be based on the compensation of the spillover ecological value.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Can the establishment of National Key Ecological Functional Zones improve air quality?: An empirical study from China

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Drawing on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from satellite raster data and matching with the county-level socio-economic data from 2008 to 2015 in China, this paper investigates the impacts of the establishment of National Key Ecological Functional Zones (NKEFZ) on environmental quality by employing the difference-in-differences method, which was stablished in June 2011. The results indicate that the establishment of the NKEFZ significantly decreased the concentration values of PM2.5, a drop of about 20% during the study period, after the paper controls for other factors affecting air quality. The robustness tests using the maximum and medium concentration values of PM2.5 show similar results. Through further analysis, the paper finds that the establishment of NKEFZ can improve the ecological utilization efficiency of land.

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Can the establishment of National Key Ecological Functional Zones improve air quality?: An empirical study from China

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“…The central government allocated most of the poverty relief funds to the West, targeting the areas that were in poverty and that were populated with ethnic minorities. These funds were dispensed to construct basic infrastructure in the designated townships and villages, to encourage planning and raising livestock, to support basic education as well as vocational and technical education and training, to promote cultural activities and to provide health care benefits (Jia et al , 2020). In the 2020 version of the GWD guidelines, poverty alleviation has been stated as one of the successes of this policy.…”

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The Great Western Development policy: how it affected grain crop production, land use and rural poverty in western China

Pei

Tian

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper evaluates the effects of the Great Western Development (GWD) policy on agricultural intensification, land use, agricultural production and rural poverty in western China.Design/methodology/approachThe authors collect county-level data on land use, input application, grain crop production, income, poverty and geophysical characteristics for 1996–2005 and use a quasi-natural experimental design of difference-in-differences (DD) in the empirical analysis.FindingsResults suggest that the GWD policy significantly increased the grain crop production in western China. This increase resulted from higher yield, with increased fertilizer use and agricultural electricity consumption per hectare, and more land allocated to grow grain crops. The policy also increased land-use concentration, reduced crop diversity and alleviated rural poverty in western China.Originality/valueThis paper makes three contributions. First, the authors add to the growing literature on the GWD policy by evaluating its effects on farm household decisions and exploring the mechanisms and broad socioeconomic impacts in western China. Second, the authors take advantage of a quasi-natural experimental design to improve the identification strategy where input use, land allocation, production and off-farm labor participation are all endogenous in a farm household. Third, the authors explore a long list of variables within one integrated dataset to present a comprehensive picture of the impact of the GWD policy.

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“…Except for Sichuan and Shaanxi, these provinces' level of sustainable development was at the lower middle level. The main reason is that these provinces are located in the underdeveloped western region, with a low level of urbanization and sustainable development [77,78]. In the process of China's reform and opening up, the western region located far inland does not have much contact or exchange with the rest of the provinces or foreign countries [79,80].…”

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Evaluation of the Level of Sustainable Development of Provinces in China from 2012 to 2018: A Study Based on the Improved Entropy Coefficient-TOPSIS Method

Liao

Chen

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Sustainability

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Based on the definition and implication of sustainable development, this paper first constructed an evaluation indicator system for the sustainable development level of provinces in China, and performed a scientific evaluation on the sustainable development level based on official statistics from 2012 to 2018 by using the improved Entropy Coefficient-TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution) method. The evaluation results showed that the eastern region of China has the highest level of sustainable development, with its two municipalities directly under the central government, Beijing and Shanghai, achieving the full score of 1.0000 in all evaluations, both ranking first among all the provinces. There were significant differences in the level of sustainable development across provinces in the central region, which were comparatively weaker in terms of environmental sustainability and science and technology sustainability, with four provinces’ evaluation scores below 0.5000. The provinces of the western region had comparatively lower levels of sustainable development, with six of the provinces ranking among the bottom ten in the overall sustainability score. In the northeast region, Liaoning had the highest overall sustainable development level, ranking ninth in the country, with an evaluation score of 0.7726; however, there were large differences across the region, with the other two provinces ranking 19th and 21th, respectively, in the overall sustainability score. Based on the research findings, this paper has provided relevant policy recommendations for China to further improve the sustainable development level of various provinces in the future.

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Place-based policies, state-led industrialisation, and regional development: Evidence from China's Great Western Development Programme

Cited by 107 publications

References 49 publications

Can the establishment of National Key Ecological Functional Zones improve air quality?: An empirical study from China

Can the establishment of National Key Ecological Functional Zones improve air quality?: An empirical study from China

The Great Western Development policy: how it affected grain crop production, land use and rural poverty in western China

Evaluation of the Level of Sustainable Development of Provinces in China from 2012 to 2018: A Study Based on the Improved Entropy Coefficient-TOPSIS Method

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