Industrial Structure Change in Chinese Cities: Measurement Based on the Extent and Quality ()
ABSTRACT
Promoting
industrial restructure and optimizing industrial structure are the keys to
improve ecological environment and upgrade products’ global
value chain. From aspects of the extent of industrial change and
productivity of industrial upgrading, by constructing the extent index of industrial
change and quality index of industrial upgrading, we examine and evaluate the industrial
structure change of 270 cities of China since
1999. This paper finds that, the extent of China’s industrial structure
change in 1999-2007 appears to follow an inverted U-shaped trend with a turning point emerging in 2004. The productivity index of
industrial upgrading rises and China’s industrial structure increasingly
depends on industries with high productivity and high technology complexity.
Eastern regions are characterized by biggest change and the best quality, better
in the central and the worst in the west. However, from 2001, the regional
difference of the extent of industrial change and quality of industrial
upgrading is narrowing, the spatial distribution pattern of big change of the
industrial structure in the east and the small change of the west is gradually
broken down, the quality of industrial structure converging.
Share and Cite:
Liu, M. , Huang, L. and Liu, J. (2016) Industrial Structure Change in Chinese Cities: Measurement Based on the Extent and Quality.
Modern Economy,
7, 894-903. doi:
10.4236/me.2016.78093.
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