Patterns of China's industrialization: Concentration, specialization, and clustering

China Economic Review

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 593-612

  Long, Cheryl ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaobo ^c,d  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; China; Geographic concentration; Industrial clustering; Regional specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865385480     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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