The provincial pattern of the relationship between urbanization and economic development in China

Chen, Mingxing; Yongbin, Huang; Tang, Zhipeng; Lü, Daren; Liu, Hui; Ma, Li

doi:10.1007/s11442-014-1071-9

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“…Over the past decades, China's economy has increased with an average annual growth rate of 9% [46]. This rapid growth of Chinese economy has however been achieved by huge energy consumption [42].…”

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The Relationship between Urbanization, Economic Growth and Energy Consumption in China: An Econometric Perspective Analysis

2015

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Abstract:As the largest developing country in the world, with rapid economic growth, China has witnessed fast-paced urbanization development over the past three decades. In fact, urbanization has been shown to promote economic growth and improve the livelihood of people, but it can also increase energy consumption and further generate energy crisis. Therefore, a better understanding of the relationship between urbanization, economic growth and energy consumption is important for China's future sustainable development. This paper empirically investigates the long-term equilibrium relationships, temporal dynamic relationships and causal relationships between urbanization, economic growth and energy consumption in China. Econometric models are utilized taking the period 1980-2012 into consideration. Cointegration tests indicate that the variables are found to be of I(1) and cointegrated. Further, vector error-correction model (VECM) indicates that when the short-term fluctuations deviate from the long-term equilibrium, the current changes of energy consumption could eliminate 9.74% non-equilibrium error of the last period, putting back the situation to the equilibrium state through a reverse adjustment. Impulse response analysis intuitively portrays the destabilized changes of the variables in response to some external shocks. However, the impact of energy consumption shock on urbanization and the OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 5610 impact of urbanization on economic growth seem to be rather marginal. Moreover, Granger causality results reveal that there is a bi-directional Granger causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth, and unidirectional causality running from urbanization to energy consumption and economic growth to urbanization. The findings have important implications for Chinese policymakers that on the path towards a sustainable society, the effects of urbanization and economic growth on energy consumption must be taken into consideration.

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The Relationship between Urbanization, Economic Growth and Energy Consumption in China: An Econometric Perspective Analysis

2015

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“…The quadrant map presented by Chen et al [61,62] was utilized to characterize dynamics of urbanization and economy over time. In this paper, the CNLI was used to represent the urbanization level and the NLEI to indicate the urban NTE level.…”

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The Dynamic Analysis between Urban Nighttime Economy and Urbanization Using the DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Data in China from 1992 to 2012

Shao

et al. 2017

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Along with rapid urbanization, nighttime activities from places, such as restaurants, pubs and bars, and theatres, have created enormous economic and social benefits. The nighttime economy (NTE), as a newly developed social phenomenon, has been used to describe economic activities at night. However, few studies have investigated urban nighttime economy and its relation to urbanization from nighttime light (NTL) data perspective. To fill this gap, this study proposed a nighttime light economy index (NLEI). The correlation analysis was performed between the NLEI and economic indicators at both the city and provincial levels in China from 1992 to 2012 using the DMSP/OLS (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program/Operational Linescan System) time series data. Results revealed that correlations between the NLEI and all kinds of economic indicators were statistically significant. It was observed that both the urbanization and nighttime economy levels increased greatly from 1992 to 2012 in China. Cities and provinces in east China displayed relatively higher annual growth rates of NLEI compared to those in southwest and northwest China. Based on the quadrant map of urbanization and nighttime economy levels, most of the provincial capitals and provinces in east China were in the advanced coordination pattern while those in west China in the low-level coordination pattern.

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“…According to relevant research [46,47], a decision criterion based on the value of Z is shown in Table 5. The Z scores of 20 urban agglomerations in six first level indicators are shown in Table 6.…”

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“…Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Middle Yangtze River, and Chengdu-Chongqing are five national urban agglomerations. They account for 9.06% of China's total territory, 35.15% of its construction land area, 43.38% of the urban population, 46.68% of GDP, and 39.11% of total fixed investment. National urban agglomerations all have national core cities (such as Shanghai in Yangtze River Delta) as the focus of development and have become powerful growth poles that drive national socio-economic development and have worldwide influence.…”

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A Comprehensive Quantitative Evaluation of New Sustainable Urbanization Level in 20 Chinese Urban Agglomerations

Wang

Zhou

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:On 16 March 2014, the State Council of China launched its first urbanization planning initiative dubbed "National New Urbanization Planning (2014-2020)" (NNUP). NNUP put forward 20 urban agglomerations and a sustainable development approach aiming to transform traditional Chinese urbanization to sustainable new urbanization. This study quantitatively evaluates the level of sustainability of the present new urbanization process in 20 Chinese urban agglomerations and provides some positive suggestions for the achievement of sustainable new urbanization. A three-level index system which is based on six fundamental elements in a city and a Full Permutation Polygon Synthetic Indicator evaluation method are adopted. The results show that China is undergoing a new urbanization process with a low level of sustainability and there are many problems remaining from traditional urbanization processes. There exists a polarized phenomenon in the urbanization of 20 urban agglomerations. Based on their own development patterns, the 20 urban agglomerations can be divided into seven categories. Every category has its own development characteristics. The analyses also show that waste of water resources, abuse of land resources, and air pollution are three big problems that are closely linked to traditional Chinese urbanization processes. To achieve sustainable new urbanization in China, four relevant suggestions and comments have been provided.

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The provincial pattern of the relationship between urbanization and economic development in China

Cited by 75 publications

References 8 publications

The Relationship between Urbanization, Economic Growth and Energy Consumption in China: An Econometric Perspective Analysis

The Relationship between Urbanization, Economic Growth and Energy Consumption in China: An Econometric Perspective Analysis

The Dynamic Analysis between Urban Nighttime Economy and Urbanization Using the DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Data in China from 1992 to 2012

A Comprehensive Quantitative Evaluation of New Sustainable Urbanization Level in 20 Chinese Urban Agglomerations

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