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The research subject "On Diminishing the Regional Differences in
China" jointly chosen by Finance and Taxation Research Center of
the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the National University
of Australia has recently been brought to finish. The study
indicates, though the differences of marketization are shrinking in
different areas in China yet the differences of regional economic
development haven't seen correspondingly narrowing.
In
combination with the reality in China the research result is
roughly synthesized as follows:
The first is the differences between the market opening-up and the
regional economic development. The research indicates that there is
no cause and effect between the marketization and the differences
of regional economic development. The factor that plays a constant
effect on the differences of regional economic development remains
still the initial level of economic development, regional
superiority and infrastructure conditions as well as the
educational level and accumulation of human capital. The second is
about the transference of payment and the differences of regional
economic development. In this regard the research holds that in
China, it is very difficult to achieve an expected result in
reducing the gaps of regional economic development only by relying
on the governmental transference of payment. The measure must be
taken in combination with the opening-up of the market so as to
create certain conditions for the development of market economy in
various areas by way of transference payment. The third is about
the resources tax and the differences of regional economic
development. About this, the subject group holds that to make the
economically backward areas get in more from the rent distribution
of the local natural resources, this must be handled from adjusting
the rent distribution system of the local resources instead of
raising lopsidedly the resources taxation.
(People's Daily May 13, 2003)
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