新世纪以来我国区域经济增长的省际差异研究

Regional economic difference has always been the vital research field of geography and economics. We have witnessed the rapid economic development of our country in the 21st century. However, there are still great disparities among regional economy. This paper explores the inter-provincial economic disparities in China mainland from 2000 to 2009 by taking GDP and per capita GDP as total index. Gathering the changes of GDP, per capita GDP, GDP share and GDP growth as statistics, it measures the total level of inter-provincial economic difference. It also quantitatively analyzes the spatial characteristics of inter-provincial economic disparities by using Lorenz curve. At length, it unfolds the reasons of regional economic difference which mainly include locational factors, technological factors, institutional factors, human capital factors, etc.