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Chapter 6
Regions and Industries in the
Six Administrative Areas
In this chapter, we look at the traditional division of China into the following six areas: Northeast,
Northwest, North, East, South, and Southwest (Figure 6.1). Consequently, we are able to rank
these areas in the order from the most optimal to the most difficult.
6.1 Investment and Employment in the Six Administrative Areas
6.1.1 Current Regional Economic Structures of the Six Areas
Similar to what we have done in the previous chapters, we compute one by one the vector of
demand structure d(t), the vector of employment structure S
1
(t), and the vector of investment
structure S