Provincial Economic Development Research Articles

Implementing a continuous quality-improvement framework for tuberculosis infection prevention and control in healthcare facilities in China, 2017-2019.

Tuberculosis (TB) infection prevention and control (IPC) in healthcare facilities is key to reducing transmission risk. A framework for systematically improving TB IPC through training and mentorship was implemented in 9 healthcare facilities in China from 2017 to 2019. Facilities conducted standardized TB IPC assessments at baseline and quarterly thereafter for 18 months. Facility-based performance was assessed using quantifiable indicators for IPC core components and administrative, environmental, and respiratory protection controls, and as a composite of all control types We calculated the percentage changes in scores over time and differences by IPC control type and facility characteristics. Scores for IPC core components increased by 72% during follow-up when averaged across facilities. The percentage changes for administrative, environmental, and respiratory protection controls were 39%, 46%, and 30%, respectively. Composite scores were 45% higher after the intervention. Overall, scores increased most during the first 6 months. There was no association between IPC implementation and provincial economic development or volume of TB services. TB IPC policies and practices showed most improvement early during implementation and did not differ consistently by facility characteristics. The training component of the project helped increase the capacity of healthcare professionals to manage TB transmission risks. Lessons learned here will inform national TB IPC guidance.

Why Can Guangdong Province Be Located First in China Regarding the Birth Population and Total GDP? - Analysis Based on Social Structure Change

Under the guidance of the three-child policy and the 14th Five-Year Plan, China’s demographic and economic situations are changing. This paper takes Guangdong Province, which will rank first in China in terms of newborn population and GDP in 2022, as an example, and analyzes the reasons from the perspective of social structural transformation. The acceleration of urbanization has promoted the renewal of cities and attracted more population inflows. In terms of demographic structure, the increase in the proportion of young people proves that Guangdong Province has rich labor resources. In terms of group structure, the growth of the service sector has caused an increase in employee numbers, and the service industry has made significant contributions to Guangdong Province's economic development. The development of family units will increase the number of families, stimulate domestic demand, and promote economic development. On the other hand, the change in economic structure is conducive to Guangdong's economic development and attracting talent.

Research on Expansion of the Export Paths of Developing Aquatic Products in Hainan Province

Hainan Province is rich in marine resources, and the marine economy is one of the exceptional advantages of Hainan Province's economic development. As the eleventh free trade zone opened by China, Hainan Province, as a province supported by the double policies of special economic zone and free trade zone, should fully harness its strengths, and adopt scientific and correct development strategies to accelerate the construction pace of aquatic products’ export industry. At present, aquatic products in Hainan Province are mostly exported for sale in the form of primary agricultural products, developing marine culture technology is needed, otherwise it will lose its development force in the face of the red line of marine fishing. Furthermore, the lack of fine deep processing of aquatic resources has become the weakness of Hainan Province in the international market competition. Therefore, we should step up efforts to of Hainan Province in the construction of aquatic products’ export industry, establish and perfect a complete aquatic products’ export industry, develop and improve the upstream and downstream industries of Hainan Province's aquatic products export and give support to the aquatic products industry, and increase the research efforts on the fine deep processing of aquatic products and other related application technology.

Does green investment reduce carbon emissions? New evidence from partially linear functional-coefficient models

Green investment (GI) has great potential to reach China's 'double carbon' target. However, it is still unknown what factors will govern the impact of GI on carbon emissions. This research relaxes the homogeneity and linearity assumed in traditional empirical models and adopts a newly developed partially linear functional-coefficient model to estimate the specific response function of GI on carbon emissions under regional heterogeneity. The results indicate that the role of GI plays a relatively greater role in the western and central regions than in the eastern regions. This highlights the latecomer advantage of the central and western regions under the 'double carbon' target. The beneficial effect of GI on carbon emission intensity is only apparent once the province's economic development level exceeds a certain threshold. For provinces with low GDP per capita, it is recommended to prioritize economic development. When the logarithm of the province's GDP per capita is higher than 9.70, we encourage strong GI. As the industrial structure continues to upgrade, the marginal effect of GI on carbon emissions will continue to increase after a key inflection point.

Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Provincial Economic Development Level in China

Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Provincial Economic Development Level in China

The Impact of Resource Endowment on Provincial Green Development: An Empirical Analysis from China

Indepth research on the impact of energy endowment on provincial green development provides a new perspective for achieving high-quality provincial economic development. Based on 30 provinces’ panel data in China from 2009 to 2020, this study first constructs an index system to analyze energy endowment and provincial green development; then it explores the mechanism by which energy endowment affects provincial green development, including the moderating role of environmental regulation and the mediating role of energy efficiency. The results show that energy endowment can significantly curb provincial green development when environmental regulations are not taken into account. Moreover, environmental regulation has moderated the process of energy endowment affecting provincial green development. Energy efficiency has mediated the process of energy endowment affecting provincial green development. From a geographical viewpoint, the moderating effect of environmental regulation has regional heterogeneity but the mediating effect of energy efficiency does not. The conclusions of this research may supply applicable recommendations for provincial green development in China.

Emission Reduction Tournament Would Postpone Carbon Peaking in China

The mitigation of climate change is one of the most serious issues in global public governance. To address the climate crisis, Chinese government has proposed a clear target of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. Regional efforts are expected to play a key role in delivering China’s pledge to peak CO2 emissions before 2030. However, the emission reduction tournament would result in rapid increases in emission transfers among provinces in China. If the current trend of provincial economic development and associated emission transfer mode remains unchanged, we forecast that 24 progressive provinces in China would peak their CO2 emissions before 2030, while 6 lagged provinces would peak later than 2030. However, if emission transfers were not existed, the nationwide carbon peaking time would be one year earlier and the corresponding carbon peaking level would be 13% lower. Furthermore, compared to the situation in 2012, the emission transfer mode in 2017 would lead to a higher carbon peaking level, indicating that the switch to the emission transfer mode from 2012 to 2017 had increased the difficulty of carbon peaking in China. We suggest that the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities should be applied when decomposing the national carbon peaking targets into provinces, and China must avoid a tournament among local governments on carbon peaking.

Local and Provincial Development in Guimaras: Smart Practices and Good Governance

This correlational-descriptive study established the level of local and provincial economic development in Guimaras, as well as the relationship between local and provincial economic growth. It was fused with a segmented quiz on local and provincial economic development. More so, SPSS was used to interpret the data collected. Findings revealed that the island’s local development was “Highly developed” while the island’s provincial economic development was “Highly developed”. As the local economy continues to grow, the provincial economy has the potential to expand. Thus, the local and provincial communities may collaborate in advancing Guimaras Island’s economic growth. The Local Government Unit may inspire economic development in both areas to be advantageous mutually. Keywords: Local Economic Development, Provincial Economic Development, Smart Practices, and Good Governance

Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Development and Water Resources-Ecological Management Capacity in China Based on Nighttime Lighting Data.

Water resources are important factors limiting social and economic development, so how to ensure the coordination between economic development and water resources-ecological management capacity has become a key issue that needs to be addressed urgently for China's high-quality economic development. This paper used nighttime light data as proxy variables of economic development to calculate the coupling coordination degree between provincial economic development and water resources-ecological management capacity in China from 2004 to 2019 based on the coupling coordination degree model; w constructed a spatial econometric model to explore the spatial correlation and influencing factors between economic development and water resources-ecological management capacity. The results are shown in the following: (1) The overall level of China's economic development is on an upward trend, but the regional development is unbalanced, showing a decreasing spatial pattern distribution of the eastern coastal region-mid-western region-far-western region. (2) The level of water resources-ecological management capacity is low, and the spatial distribution shows a decreasing trend in the far west-central and western-eastern coastal regions. (3) The level of coupling and coordination between economic development and water resources-ecological management capacity rises from a mild imbalance level to a little imbalance level, and the spatial distribution is consistent with the spatial distribution of economic development. (4) The factors influencing the level of coupling and coordination of inter-provincial economic development and water resources-ecological management capacity in China mainly involve the population scale, technological progress, affluence, and foreign direct investment. Each province and city should take into account its own actual situation and develop targeted measures to promote the coordinated development of economic development and the water resources-ecological management capacity.

Does the Governorship Matter for Provincial Economic Development?

ABSTRACT Appointed provincial governors do not have any power to make new policies apart from the ones made by the central government, but they are legally responsible for their implementations. In addition, they are not appointed for a specific time period and can be rotated even within a year or can stay longer where they are assigned. However, governors are overtly or covertly influential on provincial development since they have the central government’s authority in the local administration. In this respect, using a new panel dataset, the current study seeks to find out if there is a relation between a governor’s length of tenure and provincial economic development. The empirical results of the study show a negative relationship between the length of tenure and the economic development of provinces. In addition, longer tenure years are related to lower economic development, while the too-short length of tenure has no significant impact on the economic development of the provinces.

Nonlinear Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty Shocks on Carbon Emissions in China: Evidence from Province-Level Data

Based on cross-sectional data from 30 Chinese provinces from 2004 to 2017, this paper systematically examines the nonlinear effects of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on carbon emissions and its causes using the PSTR model. It is found that the impact of EPU on carbon emissions at the provincial level in China has significant nonlinear characteristics and shows a positive and then negative pattern as the level of EPU increases. Furthermore, increased levels of EPU also cause a nonlinear migration of the effects of provincial economic and financial development, industrial structure, government spending, and environmental regulation on carbon emissions, illustrating a large amount of heterogeneity among Chinese provinces. Specifically, provinces with higher levels of economic and financial development experience a greater positive carbon emission effect from EPU, whereas provinces with lower levels of such development experience a greater negative carbon emission effect. In contrast, in provinces with irrational industrial structures, lower fiscal expenditures, and weaker environmental controls, the nonlinear carbon emission consequences of EPU are greater. Therefore, local governments should prudently adjust economic policies, improve and perfect the market information disclosure system, and afford full play to regional comparative advantages to help achieve the "double carbon goal".

Multidimensional Measurement and Enhancement Strategies of the Provincial Ecological Niche in the Yellow River Basin

Provincial economic development in the VUCA era (V: volatility; U: uncertainty; C: complexity; A: ambiguity) is facing great challenges. Comprehensively measuring the provincial ecological niche and giving enhancement strategies are significant for the implementation of the Yellow River Strategy. By constructing the S–R–F (Status–Relationship–Function) provincial ecological niche measurement framework using the SEM model (the structural equation modeling), this paper calculated the provincial ecological niche of the Yellow River Basin from 2005 to 2019 using an ecological niche width model, an ecological niche overlap model and an ecological niche suitability model and gave improvement strategies through spatial positioning. Results: (1) The ecological niche breadth in the Yellow River Basin is uneven, showing a spatial pattern of “low in the upper reaches, high in the lower reaches”. The ecological niche overlap changes from synchronous competition to hierarchical differentiation. The ecological niche suitability shows a transformation of “overall homogeneity but local variation”. (2) Qinghai and Gansu belong to subspace I of ecological niches; the strategies of ecological niche specialization, potential ecological niche and ecological niche synergy are appropriate. Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia belong to subspace III; the strategies of ecological niche specialization, ecological niche separation, potential ecological niche and ecological niche synergy are suitable. Shandong belongs to subspace VI; the strategies of ecological niche generalization and ecological niche synergy are fitting. Henan, Sichuan and Shaanxi belong to subspace VIII; it is advisable to choose ecological niche generalization, ecological niche separation and ecological niche synergy strategies. The possible marginal contributions of this paper are: (1) applying the idea of fitting optimization to guide the construction of a provincial ecological status indicator system, applying the validation analysis in the SEM model to test the suitability and validity of a provincial ecological status indicator system and improving the scientificity and objectivity of the indicator system construction. (2) Correlating the measurement model with the connotation (state–relationship–function) of the provincial ecological niche, the perspective of ecological niche research and improving the theoretical support for the construction of a multidimensional measurement model. (3) Spatial positioning of provincial ecological niches to improve the relevance and effectiveness of strategies.

Assessing the Contribution of Natural Gas Exploitation to the Local Economic Growth in China

This study investigates whether natural gas exploitation is a blessing or a curse for provincial and prefecture economic growth. This study employs regression models and synthetic control methods (SCM) to investigate the research question based on hybrid panel and time-series data from 1993 to 2015 from 14 prefecture cities in Sichuan province in China. Based on the provincial data of Sichuan, the regression results show that natural gas exploitation is a curse for the provincial economic development of Sichuan because of the negative associations between gas resources and economic performance, for which the increasing rent-seeking in the province may partially account. However, the SCM results find that the local economy of Dazhou city may benefit from its sufficient natural gas resources in the short run, but it is not sustainable. Meanwhile, the gas resource has no significant contributions to the regional economic growth of Sichuan overall, which is partially attributed to the fact that resource exploitation has no significant spillover effects on some sustainable contributors, such as education, innovation, and others. The practical implication for the economic governors is that the resource-consumed economic route is not sustainable, although it may drive local economic growth in the short run.

Measurement of Fiscal Expenditure, Scientific and Technological Innovation and High-quality Economic Development in China

This paper measures the provincial high-quality economic development index, financial expenditure level and scientific and technological innovation level from 2011 to 2020. Firstly, measure the level of fiscal expenditure from two aspects: scale and structure; Secondly, Malmquist index is used to measure the input-output efficiency of scientific and technological innovation, and to measure the level of scientific and technological innovation; Finally, based on the principal component analysis, under the guidance of the new development concept, this paper constructs a comprehensive index system, and measures the comprehensive index of high-quality economic development

Vested Contracting to Improve Patient Care and Promote Innovation within a Newfoundland and Labrador Regional Health Authority.

Eastern Health (EH) is the most populous of four Regional Health Authorities in Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2017, EH realized the potential impact that healthcare innovation could have on improving patient care, its outcomes as well as provincial economic development. This paper describes EH's innovation journey with "vested contracting," a relatively rare approach in Canada, for its procurement of management services for support activities, such as housekeeping, laundry, patient/resident food services, retail food services and portering. Through individual interviews with EH executives, directors and the successful vendor, this paper describes the system changes needed to accommodate "vested contracting," the burden associated with learning and changing the procurement process and lessons learned.

Spatial Spillover Effect and Threshold Effect of Digital Financial Inclusion on Farmers’ Income Growth—Based on Provincial Data of China

The effect of digital financial inclusion on farmers’ income growth is worth theoretical discussion and empirical testing. Based on the sample data of 30 provinces in the Chinese mainland from 2011 to 2019, this paper adopted the spatial Durbin model and the panel threshold model to empirically study the impact of digital financial inclusion on the growth of farmers’ income; furthermore, the heterogeneity of the impact was studied in terms of the difference of provincial economic development level. The results showed that: first, digital financial inclusion can significantly promote farmers’ income growth; second, digital financial inclusion has a positive spatial spillover effect on farmers’ income growth; third, the impact of digital financial inclusion on farmers’ income growth has a double threshold effect: farmers’ income growth increases with the development of digital financial inclusion; and fourth, the impact of digital financial inclusion on farmers’ income growth is heterogeneous in terms of provincial economic development level.

The Economic Impact of Healthcare Innovation Activity on the Newfoundland and Labrador Economy in 2019 and 2020.

Eastern Health (EH), the most populous region of the four Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Regional Health Authorities, has been advancing innovation to improve patient care, health outcomes and provincial economic development. This paper describes how EH engaged with the provincial Department of Finance to estimate the direct, indirect and induced economic impacts on provincial gross domestic product, employment and employment income from innovation-related activities. The modelling demonstrated significant economic benefits in both 2019 and 2020. There was a large increase in 2020 due to pandemic-related personal protective equipment manufacturing opportunities. The number of well-paying jobs created also increased. Local healthcare innovation was stimulated by EH's Living Lab, Health Innovation Team and increased coordination between vendor partners, Memorial University, the NL Centre for Health Information and government funding agencies.

Research on the influencing factors of GDP in Guangdong Province based on grey relational analysis

As the most economically developed region in China, Guangdong Province has important guiding significance for the study of the influencing factors of Guangdong Province's economic development. This paper uses the grey correlation method to study the GDP data of Guangdong Province from 2010 to 2020, and conducts an empirical analysis on the relationship between it and the index system composed of indicators such as environment, investment and education. The research shows that the total social fixed asset investment in the indicator system has the highest correlation with the GDP of Guangdong Province, but the correlations corresponding to different indicators are different. According to its conclusion, this paper puts forward corresponding policy suggestions to provide theoretical support and thinking perspective for the economic development of Guangdong Province.

Occupation of Cultivated Land for Urban–Rural Expansion in China: Evidence from National Land Survey 1996–2006

Construction land expansion often occurs on cultivated land in developing countries during rapid urbanization and industrialization. Understanding its characteristics and driving mechanisms is of great significance for land-use policy and sustainable development. This paper depicted the spatio-temporal patterns of China’s urban–rural expansion and its occupation of cultivated land based on national land survey data from 1996 to 2006. It further explored the influencing mechanism of cultivated land occupation for urban–rural construction land. The results showed that the establishment and expansion of various economic development zones contribute to more than half of the occupation of cultivated land while the expansion of cities and towns is relatively slower, and their sources of construction land are more diverse. The empirical results showed that (1) economic growth and investment play key roles in shaping the spatio-temporal patterns of the occupation of cultivated land for urban–rural construction land, and (2) the mechanisms of cultivated land occupation in different stages of regional development are different. In particular, the establishment of national economic development zones is conducive to the intensive use of construction land and the protection of cultivated land in inland regions, whereas provincial economic development zones have led to a waste of land resources in coastal regions. Based on the results, this study suggested that the policies to the intensive use of land resources and cultivated land protection required regional disparities.

Research on the Influence of FDI on Guangdong’s High-Quality Economic Development

With the transition of China's economy from the stage of rapid growth to the stage of high-quality development, the influence of the introduction of FDI on the high-quality development of regional economy has become more and more an issue to be discussed. This paper selects Guangdong Province as the frontier of China's reform and opening up. Combining with the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, development and sharing, the high-quality development system of Guangdong's economy is constructed and the high-quality development index of Guangdong's economy is measured by entropy weight method. On this basis, empirical analysis of FDI on the quality of Guangdong province's economic development. Research shows that FDI can significantly promote the high-quality economic development of Guangdong, where technological progress and government intervention are important factors to promote the high-quality economic development of Guangdong, while industrial development hinders the high-quality economic development of Guangdong, urbanization has a positive role in promoting the high-quality economic development of Guangdong. However, the results were not significant. The results of quantile regression showed that for different levels of high-quality economic development, the promoting effect of FDI presented differences, specifically, with the improvement of the level of high-quality economic development, the promoting effect of FDI on high-quality economic development presented a gradual downward trend. Guangdong is in the important stage of the high-quality economic development to the objective and the role of FDI on Guangdong economy high-quality development, to distinguish the different economic development level of high-quality parts for the sensitivity of the FDI, specific aim ground is made science and Guangdong economy development stage of FDI into high-quality policy, to ensure high-quality economic growth is of great significance in Guangdong.