The regional specialization of service sector in China- from 1993 to 2006

Author

Zhang, Jie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Econ., Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

8-10 June 2009

Firstpage

126

Lastpage

130

Abstract

Using the Krugman index, we calculate the regional specialization of 29 provinces´ service sector in China. Further, we analyze some specific industries of the service sector through the location quotient. Then we compare the degree of specialization between each other of 10 provinces. The main conclusions of this paper are: Firstly, the average specialization of service sector is lower than manufacture sector because of the specific characteristics of service industry; Secondly, the specialization degree of service industry in China has been descending then increasing since 1990; Thirdly, metropolitan areas have remarkable advantages in the developing of producer service industry and knowledge intensive service industry.

Keywords

knowledge management; service industries; China; Krugman index; knowledge intensive service industry; producer service industry; service sector; Computer industry; Data security; Demography; Environmental economics; Industrial economics; Manufacturing industries; Motion pictures; Silicon carbide; Software; Statistics; Krugman index; location quotient; service industry; specialization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Systems and Service Management, 2009. ICSSSM '09. 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xiamen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3661-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3662-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSSM.2009.5174868

Filename

5174868