Some considerations on China’s long-run economic growth: 1952–2015 from the analysis of factor contributions to that of the profit rate

Mediating Effect and Suppressing Effect: Intermediate Mechanism of Urban Land Use Efficiency and Economic Development

“…(2) The baseline regression analysis shows that ULUE has a significant positive driving effect on economic development. (3) The heterogeneity regression analysis shows that the effect of ULUE on economic development is significantly heterogeneous among cities with different geographical locations and resource endowments, with significant positive effects on midstream, downstream, and resource-based cities, while the effects on upstream and non-resource-based cities are not significant. (4) The analysis of the action mechanism shows that there are two different mechanisms of mediating effect and suppressing effect between ULUE and economic development: The mechanisms of action of urban land economic output density and urban construction land investment intensity (economic scale variables) are the mediating effect and the suppressing effect, respectively; industrial structure and employment structure (economic structure variables) play part of the mediating effect; economic benefit and environmental benefit/social benefit (economic quality variables) are the mediating effect and a suppressing effect, respectively.…”

“…Land resources are indispensable factors of production in the process of economic development, and land use permeates the whole process of human economic activities [1,2]. According to the World Bank, the total global economic volume grew rapidly from USD 3 × 10 13 (in 1985) to USD 7.52 × 10 13 (in 2015), and the total economic volume expanded nearly three times in 30 years, with an average annual growth rate of 3.11% [3]. Meanwhile, the global urban land area increased rapidly from 3.63 × 10 5 km 2 (in 1985) to 6.53 × 10 5 km 2 (in 2015), with a net expansion rate of 80% and an average of 9.69 × 10 3 km 2 of land converted into urban land each year [4].…”

Carbon implications of China’s changing economic structure at the city level

“…However, the global financial crisis significantly affected Chinese economic development (Long and Herrera, 2018;Overholt, 2010); the annual GDP growth rate declined from more than 14% in 2007 to less than 7% in 2016. The Chinese government introduced a large economic stimulus plan, including the domestic Four Trillion Yuan Stimulus Package, and established institutions and initiatives to expand foreign investment, including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Belt and Road Initiatives.…”