【英文摘要】During the current global financial crisis, regions, sectors, and enterprises with the outdated growth pattern, industrial structure inconsistent with their comparative advantages, and technological structure hanging behind the development stage were first exposed to the economic shocks. The way out thus is to reshape the economy's regional development pattern based on comparative advantage. Against the background of financial crisis and under the assumption of large economy, this paper extends flying geese paradigm and applies it to interpret regional growth pattern of the Chinese economy-namely, a leapfrog type industrial structure evolution among regions. Empirical results show that the growth and contribution rates of total factor productivity in manufacturing in the Northeastern and Central provinces tended to be significantly higher than that in Eastern provinces, whereas that doesn't necessarily imply that the new pattern in better productivity-performing regions is consistent with their comparative advantages induced by endowments of production factors. The paper suggests that by relocating the industries among eastern, central and western regions-that is, upgrading industries in eastern region while transforming labor-intensive industries to central and western regions, the industrial structure in the interior regions shall move towards to their comparative advantages and thus the labor-intensive industries shall be sustained in China.
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