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Thai Rice Exporters Set for Bumper Year.

Thai Rubber Glove Industry Calls for Chemical Tax Cut.

Korea Charts New Course for Biotechnology.

Medicine Valley to be Built in Jiangsu.

China’s Animal Husbandry Sector Keen on Upgrading.

Florida Fruit Producers Aiming at Chinese Market.

Japan Mad Cow Disease Debacle Continues.

Japan and China Settle Farm Produce Dispute.

Competing Australian States to Co-Promote Aussie Biotech.

New GM Wheat to Bypass Australia.

Jiangsu Pharmaceutical Industry Thriving.

Shenzhen Opens Drug Distribution Market to Foreign Investment.

Vadodara to Establish Biotech Park.

Monkey Pox Virus Imported to Japan.

Increase in Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis Sufferers in Japan.

Korea Free of SARS Suspects.

Increasing Food Poisoning Cases.

WHO Head Makes Smoking and AIDS Top Agenda.

Upcoming Vaccine Facility in Malaysia.

Bioinformatics Applied for Analyzing Brain Disorders.

Completion of Trout Genetic Database by Year End.

First Private Hospital Covered by Reformed Medical Insurance Scheme.

Jiangsu Lifts Restrictions on Sales of Class B OTC Drugs.

India’s Drug Prices Revision.

Japan Revises Parent-Child Legislation.

GM Pet Fish Makes Splash in Japan.

Among the economies in the Eastern coastal area of mainland China, Jiangsu has stood out in terms of its rapid and sustained economic growth since 2000. The province has done exceptionally well in terms of competitiveness indicators, catching up quickly with the leading Greater China economy of Taiwan. Such convergence has triggered much academic and policy interest in terms of understanding the driving factors that have enabled Jiangsu to catch up with Taiwan. In this context, this paper empirically analyzes the factors that have caused the convergence between the two economies from 2000 to 2011 by employing Geweke Causality analysis. By decomposing and examining the linear feedback between economic growth and vectors of variables capturing investments in infrastructure, human capital, science, technology and innovation activities, this paper confirms the important role played by those factors in the convergence between Jiangsu and Taiwan in recent years.