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In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the development of China’s high-tech industry, not only because it reflects China’s domestic achievement in transforming its industrial structure, but also because it represents a challenge, from a global perspective, to the preeminence of the technological competitiveness of developed countries (Chen and Shi 2005; Gilboy 2004; Jefferson 2005; Liu and Buck 2007). However, existing studies largely concentrate on describing and analyzing the temporal dynamics of China’s high-tech industry against a global competition scenario rather than drilling down and exploring more details of the issue from a complementary point of view (OECD 2007, 2008). As a result, apart from a convinced impression that China’s production and R&D investment is soaring in high-tech industry, very little is known about the spatial pattern of China’s high-tech industry, the underlying factors that drive the formation and evolution of this pattern, its profound socioeconomic influences on crucial issues like regional competitiveness and disparity, and their implications for policymaking. The objective of this paper, in response, is to address the gap in studies on China’s high-tech industry from a spatial perspective.
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Notes
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All values in this paper have been deflated into 1996 prices based on a relevant associated price index.
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The underlying rationale of grouping all 31 provinces with the three quantiles conforms to the NBS norm of conducting economic-geographic analysis in China (see Demurger et al. 2002).
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The year 2002 has been chosen to separate these two periods, because China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since 2001, after which the magnitude of FDI in China has experienced a remarkable surge.
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Yu, J., Nijkamp, P., Yuan, J. (2011). The Spatial Dynamics of China’s High-Tech Industry: An Exploratory Policy Analysis. In: Kourtit, K., Nijkamp, P., Stough, R. (eds) Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17940-2_11
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