An Empirical Analysis of China's Regional Economic Development Using Provincial Input-Output Tables

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The outcomes of this research are divided into two parts: First, it has estimated sets of comparable input-output tables for nine provinces in China (i.e. Jiangsu, Fujian, Beijing, Jiangxi, Henan, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, and Xinjiang) over 2002-2007 and has applied a structural decomposition analysis (SDA) to see how much contribution was made for the growth of each industry in each region by such factors as regional investment, consumption, export, import substitution, and technological changes. Second, mainly using the data from the northern part of Zhejiang province, it has shown the importance of external economy produced by local supporting industries as a source of agglomeration forces for local firms.