R/S and wavelet analysis on evolutionary process of regional economic disparity in China during past 50 years

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Jian-hua Xu
Yan Lu
Fang-lin Su
Nan-shan Ai
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[1] East China Normal University,Department of Geography
[2] Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
[3] Zhengzhou University,School of Environment & Water Conservancy
[4] Sichuan University,Architecture & Environment College
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Chinese Geographical Science | 2004年 / 14卷
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China; regional economic disparity; Theil index; R/S analysis; wavelet analysis; TP79; F124;
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This paper shows the dynamic process of regional disparity of economic development in China in the past 50 years from a new insight by using the rescaled range statistic (R/S) analysis and wavelet analysis of the Theil index sequence with different time scales. The main conclusions are: 1) The regional disparity of economic development in China, including the inter-provincial disparity, inter-regional disparity and intra-regional disparity, has existed for many years. Theil index by the comparative price has revealed the true trend for comparative disparity of regional economic development from 1952 to 2000. 2) Decomposition of Theil index indicates that the dynamic trend of comparative inter-provincial disparity in the coastal region is in line with dynamic trend of inter-provincial disparity in the whole China. 3) The R/S analysis results tell us that during 1966–1978, the Hurst exponent H=0.504≈0.5, which indicates that in that period the evolution of comparative inter-provincial disparity of economic development showed a random characteristic, and in the other periods, i.e. 1952–1965, 1979–1990 and 1991–2000, the Hurst exponent H>0.5, which indicates that in those periods the evolution of the comparative inter-provincial disparity of economic development in China had a long-enduring characteristic. 4) By using wavelet analysis at different time scale, we arrived at a conclusion that the evolutionary process of the disparity of economic development of China is not a simple inverted U shape but a compound of several U shapes. The result tells us that the evolutionary plot of inter-provincial disparity in China follows the inverted U on the whole at the higher scale, 24 (16 years). That is to say, the disparity tends to rise in the first stage of economic development, and fall slowly over the peak in the second stage of economic development. However, if we shorten the time scale to 23 (8 years), then a link of several U shapes will appear.
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