INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGE IN CHINA DURING THE PAST 30 YEARS OF REFORM AND OPENING UP
回顾了改革开放30年中国工业发展成就与地理格局变化，指出制造业集聚于沿海省份，区域差异呈U型特征，并强调政策改革对工业地理的关键影响。
Industry development plays a very important role in national economy, thus industrial development and its geographical change in China have gained much attention in both theoretical and practical domains. After 30 years of reform and opening up, China's industrial development has made great achievements and the process of industrialization has been significantly speeded up. At present, China has become a large international manufacturing country, and it has ranked top in the world in aspect of major manufacturing products. However, compared to developed countries, competitive advantage of China's manufacturing is still mainly attributed to labor-intensive products. Industrial structure of China in the past 30 years has experienced different periods, one of which is the fast development of heavy and chemical industries since 1998. Domestic consumption upgrade, acceleration of urbanization process, and international industrial transfer dominated by Transnational Corporations (TNCs) are the most important factors promoting China's industrial restructuring in recent years. Over the past 30 years, China's regional industrial disparity showed U-shaped Characteristics, that's to say, after the narrowing period from 1978 to 1992, regional difference in industrial output has experienced a continuing expansion process, especially the disparity between coastal regions and inland areas. Meanwhile, new industrial centers have taken the place of traditional industrial centers with the manufacturing agglomeration in coastal provinces, such as Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu Provinces. There are many factors affecting China's industrial change, but the impact of China's regulation and policy reform plays a most significant role in shaping the industrial geography of China, such as stability of opening-up policy, and improvement of regional policies and dynamic regulation innovation are particularly important.