Abstract

Since the reform and opening up, China's economy has maintained an average annual growth rate of 9.86%, and became the world's second largest economy beyond Germany and Japan. The world has never been another country to keep the economic growth so fast in such a long time; it has created the“Chinese miracle”. However, there have been many problems such as overheated investment, insufficient domestic demand, extensive management, regional disparities, economic structural imbalances and other issues, the economic growth quality and quantity of the expansion of non-conformance contradictions become increasingly prominent. Especially in the current“three overlay”period, the economic slowdown will become the new normal macroeconomic background. How to change the mode of economic development to achieve regional economic sustainable development has become a new challenge.

Transformation of economic development is a long and complicated process. The total economic growth is the foundation, the efficient use of economic factors is the indemnification, the economic structure transformation is the essence, and the core of economic development is to achieve improved efficiency. On this condition, the book proposes the concept of regional economic development efficiency from the“Total-Elements-Structure”perspective, and constructes the theory system of the regional economic development efficiency. By total economic efficiency, the efficiency of regional economic factors, and the regional economic structure efficiency, the book studies the time evolution, spatial patterns and problems, to reflect China's regional economic development model since the reform and opening up. At last, the book proposes the path to enhance the efficien cy of China's regional economic development and a new model for the regional economic coordinated development. The full text includes six chapters as follows.

The first chapter is the introduction. Firstly this chapter describes the research background and basis, and proposes the necessary for regional economic development efficiency study; secondly expounds the concept and connotation of regional economic development efficiency; finally, proposes the research objectives and research methods and technology roadmap.

The second chapter is the conceptual analysis and the related literature review. This chapter analyzes the distinctions and contacts of different economic efficiency theories, thus confirms the connotation of regional economic development efficiency, and systematically combs the related literature of the economic efficiency to clarify the research.

The third chapter is the regional economic development efficiency characteristics and evolutionary mechanisms. From comprehensive, social, regional, stage, the book elaborates the regional economic development efficiency characteristics; Thus discusses the regional economic efficiency mechanisms from the perspective of micro and macro, including technology, capital, labor, and natural resources, locational conditions, industrial structure, urbanization, economic openness, institutional environment and property arrangements.

The fourth chapter is the fist empirical part. Firstly the book estimates the inter-provincial capital stock and inter-provincial capital stock of three industries, establishes the panel data set of efficiency indicators. On this basis, by the total regional economic efficiency model, Malmquist productivity index model, the book measures the regional economy total efficiency, the efficiency of regional economic factors, the structure efficiency, and analyzes the temporal evolution characteristics.

The fifth chapter is the second empirical part. Firstly, based on the timesectional efficiency measured by DEA model, the book uses the standard deviation and coefficient of variation to analyze the regional differences of the efficiency since the reform and opening up. Secondly, based on the spatial correlation model Moran index, Moran'I map, the book analyzes the space and spatial spillover effects associated with the pattern of regional economic development efficiency in China. Finally, by the clustering method the book divides the current type of regional economic development efficiency, and analyzes the characteristics and problems.

The sixth chapter is the last part of the empirical. First of all, the book analyzes the causes of China's regional economic development efficiency evolution combined with the“Chinese model”from the factor input mode, the structure model, the spatial development patterns and insititutional mode. Secondly, the book raises the base path to enhance the efficiency of regional economic development in the future. Finally, from the“Efficiency-Structure-Function”perspective, the book puts forward a new model for the regional economic coordinated development in the future.

Keywords: Total-Elements-Structure; Regional Economic Development Efficiency; Evolution Mechanisms; Spatial Association Pattern; Regional Economic Coordinated Development