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area has dropped when compared to the grand total investment nationwide, the effect of the
investment in the east area has risen clearly. Specifically, the return on investment in Shanghai has
been ranked number 1 that is a quite distant above number 2 in the nation with the comparative
gain of capital = 2.313.
Second, let us look at the structural evolution of the 31 provinces, municipalities, and autono-
mous regions.
In terms of the comparative gains of labor, the most recent ordering has been given above.
However, in the year 1999, the ordering from the highest to the lowest was t ...