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Can Time–Space Compression Promote Urban Economic Growth? evidence from China's High‐speed Rail Projects / Yao, Shujie ; He, Hongbo ; Fang, Jing

Yao, Shujie	Journal Article
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This paper studies the effect of high‐speed rail (HSR) on urban economic growth using a panel data comprising 285 Chinese cities in 2007–2017. Combining the endogenous growth model with a difference‐in‐difference analysis, we extend the horse‐mass theory to explain how China may use HSR to avoid the so‐called middle‐income trap. The paper also examines the efficient boundaries of HSR and simultaneously studies HSR time–space compression as well as the city neighboring effects on economic growth. It is found that HSR's efficient boundaries are within the range of 200–1,200 km for provincial capitals and 50–300 km for prefecture‐level cities. HSR stimulates economic growth by approximately 0.6 percent, and the neighboring effect accounts for one‐quarter of economic growth. Three policy implications are drawn: (i) China needs to further reduce the travel times between the inland provincial cities and Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou; (ii) China should build a denser HSR network to maximize its economic impact on the vast majority of cities; (iii) China needs to develop some powerful economic growth centers in the inland areas to lead the development of their neighboring cities.

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High‐Speed Rail ; Horse‐Mass Theory ; Middle‐Income Trap ; Time–Space Compression ; Urban Economic Growth

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China's rural health system and environment-related health risk / Fang, Jing; Bloom, Gerry

Fang, Jing	Journal Article
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This paper presents a chronology of the development of the Chinese rural health system and its responses to environment-related health problems. During the early years of the People's Republic, the health system was very successful in reducing the transmission of infectious diseases through environmental improvements. Since the transition to a market economy, environment-related preventive programmes have been given less priority and a variety of new environment-related health problems and risks have emerged. More recently, the Chinese government has made strong commitments to improve the performance of the health system and increase access by all. Its focus has been on strengthening medical care and developing new forms of health finance. It has paid little attention to environment-related problems. However, as the pace of health reform accelerates, it will be important to ensure that it take environment-related problems into account.

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Market Economy ; China ; China's Rural Health System ; Environment-Related Health Risks ; Health Finance

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