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| THE EFFECT OF INFORMATIZATION ON REGIONAL ECONOMY IN CHINA |
| TENG Li1, WANG Zheng1,2, PANG Li1, Li Gang-qiang2 |
1. Key Laboratory of Geography Information Science, ministry of State Education of China, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China;
2. Institute of Politics and Management Science, CAS, Beijing 100080, China |
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Abstract Informatization is a cover-all concept. This paper analyzed regional informatization from two aspects including infrastructure and information industry. The fort is the footstone, the late is the core of informatization. The levels of regional informatization were measured with index composing.In China, the information infrastructure concentrated on the developed provinces and those locate near the board The information industry was the best in the East area. But the information industry accounted for the bigger proportion in the output of underdevelopment areas. The effect of informatization on the regional economic growth was studied from following two sides. As an economy section, the growth of the information industry was positively relating to the growth of GDP on different extent to different provinces. Another focus of the paper was on the effect of the spillover of infrastructure。Accordingly the economic growth accounting model with spillover was applied to evaluate the contribution of spillover of informatization infrastructure to regional economic growth. Two cases of single and bi-regions are discussed respectively. From the views of Three regions of China, the East was the major source of spillover. The West got the most benefit from the spillover of in formation infrastructure. And the Central hold the position as the West to accept the spillover from the East due to the gap of information infrastructure between the East and the Central. From the views of provinces, Except of individual province, the province benefited from local infrastructure spillover was also the region in which the information infrastructure of foreign and local region together made the positive on the economic growth. The spillover of information infrastructure was smaller in case of bi-regions than that in single region. Moreover the machine of spillover of information infrastructure of single region is not same to that of bi-regions. Firstly, information infrastructure was generally different from the traditional infrastructure that it was of high technological. Person were required learning in using it, and that promoted the human capital and skill progress, the economic growth was accordingly achieved. Secondly, in the case of bi-regions, the economic growth of one of regions resulted from the increasing of trading and knowledge spillover along with the information communication which were supported by the information infrastructure of two regions.
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Received: 14 December 2004
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2006, Vol. 21 
