China's west region development = [Zhongguo xi bu] : domestic strategies and global implications / edited by Ding Lu, William A.W. Neilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Designing a regional development strategy for China / Dwight Perkins -- Eco-environmental protection and poverty-alleviation in West China Development / Zheng Yuxin and Qian Yihong -- Western China : human security and national security / Robert Bedeski -- Reconciliation between ecosystem preservation and economic development initiative-- the case of Tarim Basin / Zhao Xiusheng, Dai Jian and Shen Hong -- New pattern of regional co-operation in China : four economic belts across east to west / Li Shantong, Hou Yongzhi and Feng Jie -- Political logic of fiscal transfers in China / Wang Shaoguang -- Politics of China's Western Development Initiative / Gregory T. Chin -- Introductory environmental macroeconomic framework for China : implications for West China Development / Dodo Thampapillai, Euston Quah and Shandre M. Thangavelu -- Enhancing the Western China Development Strategy (WCDS) : innovative approaches / Neal C. Stoskopf [and others] -- On the urban-rural relationship in western region development program / Shi Yulong and Du Ping -- Western region's growth potential / Ding Lu and Elspeth Thomson -- Measuring the impact of the "five mega-projects" / Lin Ling and Liu Shiqing -- "Grain for green" policy and its impacts on grain supply in West China / Zhiming Feng and Pengtao Zhang -- Education and development : a historical experience / Yu Li -- New challenges facing the development of West China / Liu Shiqing and Lin Ling -- Migration scenarios and western China development : the evidence from 2000 population census data / Shuming Bao and Wing Thye Woo -- Gender relations, tourism and ecological effects in Lijiang, China / Govind Kelkar -- China's west development strategy and rural empowerment : is there a link? : a case study of the Tibetan Plateau region / Namgyal -- Significance of West China Development to Asian economic integration / Chen Zhilong -- Relative contributions of location and preferential policies in China's regional development / Sylvie Demurger [and others] -- Urbanization and West China Development / Ding Lu and Wing Thye Woo -- China's regional disparities in 1978-2000 / Zhigang Lu and Shunfeng Song -- Development of West China : marketization versus foreign direct investment / Wen Mei.

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In the last two decades, China's western inland region has largely been left out of the nation's economic boom. While its 355-million population accounts for 28% and its land area for 71% of China's total, the region's share of the national GDP is under 20%. Since 1999, Beijing has implemented the West China Development Program to boost the region's growth. To study the major domestic issues and the global implications of this program, the University of Victoria's Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives organized and hosted a multidisciplinary international conference on March 6-8, 2003. This volume of papers presented at the conference offers perspectives on the issues by leading experts of diversified academic disciplines from China, Canada, the US, and other countries.

English.

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