Socio-economic Transformations in the Regional Spatial Development of the PRC during the Period from the Late 1970s to the Early 1990s

Abstract

The paper examines the historical features of structural socio-economic transformations in the regional spatial development of the PRC during the implementation of the policy of reforms and opening up. The analysis is based on the conclusions of Li Jingwen, a Chinese scientist, specialist in the field of China's regional economy in the second half of the 20th century. In the context of structural socio-economic transformations in the regional spatial development of the PRC in the period from the late of 1970 to the early 1990s in order to get rid of the disproportionate industrial location and uneven distribution of resources, promote the economic development of the central and western regions and implement the coordinated development of the regional economy, the Chinese government aimed to promote the strategy of economic development of less developed regions at the right time, while changing the vector of development of the regional economy from the past strategies of coastal and border economic development to the strategy of economic balanced development of the entire regional space of the PRC.