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Empirical Studies of Agglomeration of Manufacturing Industry in China

WU Xue-hua

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The agglomeration of manufacturing industry in foreign countries has been studied since the 1980s, but there are few such studies in China. In the paper, several indices are designed to measure the agglomeration degree of 20 two-digit manufacturing industries and find that some industries show higher degree of concentration in the eastern China, but some industries characterized of scale and scope economies are less concentrated.

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Key concepts: Economies of agglomeration, China, Scope (computer science), Economies of scope, Manufacturing, Economic geography, Business, Economies of scale