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Global warming has aroused the attention all over the world, because not only can it directly damage the living environment, but it can also impact on the social and economic development, of a region in an obvious and far-reaching way. In this paper, we builded a trans-log production function model incorporating variables, such as rainfall, labor force, technology and temperature to simulate how climate changes impacted on the regional economics. Time series data of the domestic economy of Nanjing, a city in the southeast China, between 1996 and 2017, were used to verify the production theory of trans-log production frontier. The results showed that: with the rainfall increased and the temperature declined, the climate impact on the economy and the absolute value of the output elasticity of the frontier diminished. In addtion, the climate change was also positively related to the capital investment. The larger variation of temperature negatively impacted on the economic development. • This paper builds a trans-log production function model. • Time series data are used to verify the production theory of trans-log production frontiers. • Analyzing the effect of climate change on the regional economy. • The larger variation of temperature negatively impacted on the economic development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study which evaluates China's provincial de jure and de facto population data from 1990-2006 in order to remap the country's regional inequalities. It focuses on the trends in China's regional inequality during the 1990s and argues that the view about the increase of inequality during this period is based on faulty interpretation and application of de jure provincial population statistics. China's regional economic disparities and the role of long-distance migration in regional inequalities are discussed.

The financial marketization degree directly relates to the level of financial efficiency and financial development. This paper selects six provinces which respectively represent East China, South China and Central China. Then compare their financial marketization degree via grey target approaching analysis. Based on analytic results, the paper lists the order and obtained the fluctuation tendency of six provinces from 1998-2002. The research shows that obvious disparity exist in China's different regions: Eastern region has a higher financial marketization degree and quicker financial development; Central region is rising continuously; Western region has the lowest financial marketization degree. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of geographic information system (GIS) techniques for rigorous analysis of regional inequality in China remains limited. In this article, the authors utilize recent data and GIS and spatial statistical techniques to analyze changing patterns of regional inequality in China from 1978 to 2000. It also identifies the changing clusters of regional development in China. They illustrate that regional inequality in China is sensitive to development trajectories of the provinces, and that conventional measures of regional inequality mask geographical clustering.