CHAPTER VII: REGIONAL STRUCTURE

Since the reform and opening up, the biggest problem in China’s regional structure is that the inconsistency is too large and the gap between regions continues to expand. That is, the regional disparity pattern of economic and social development has already formed, and differences in development mode and speed are significant. Disparities in living standards and development opportunities among members of society in different regions are gradually widening, while regional disparities in the social sub-structure are prominent. Overly large regional disparities will inevitably produce a large number of adverse effects, such as difficulty for modern industries to transfer across gradients, excessive competition among regions preventing regional cooperation and economic and social contradictions becoming increasingly prominent. Adjustment of the regional structure is urgent. The key is to implement coordinated regional development strategie.