Regional distribution of China's science and technology and economic development

The regional imbalance of economic development is one of the fundamental characteristics of China's national condition. A prevailing viewpoint is held that there is an increasingly widening gap in per capita GDP and per capita net income between individuals in China since the 1978 opening & reforming policy. To analyze the interrelationship between S&T and the economy as well as to measure the gap between the regional S&T development and economic development on a quantitative basis, the authors established the evaluation approach of both science & technology and economic development. Two kinds of indicators are chosen: one kind to represent the economic development; the other to represent the S&T development.