1. This book is the first attempt to investigate the impact of international trade liberalization and regional integration on the distribution of industrial activities within China, which offers an ideal setting to investigate this issue.2. This book gives the rational of the success of coastal regions in China relative to other regions is accounted for by the interaction of geographical advantage (first nature) and self-reinforcing economic forces (second nature).3. It is conceivable that HME (home market effect) influences the spatial disparity across regions within a country. This book attempts to interpret a definition of HME and claims that HME contains two critical components i.e. PME (primary magnification effect) and SME (secondary magnification effect). It reinvestigates HME in terms of wages and study the evolution of spatial disparity during regional integration using panel data of China.

Autorentext
Jian Wang is currently assistant professor at the SHU-UTS SILC Business School, Shanghai University. He received his doctorate from Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Dr. Wang's main research areas of interest are international trade, economic geography, urban economics and environmental economics. His academic papers have been published in Energy Policy, The Annals of Regional Science, Review of Urban and Regional Developments Studies.
Wang, J., Lv, K., Bian, Y and Cheng, Y. 2017. Energy efficiency and marginal carbon dioxide emission abatement cost in urban China. Energy Policy. Vol.105. pp. 246255.
Wang, J and Xu, J. 2015. Home market effect, spatial wages disparity: an empirical reinvestigation of China. The Annals of Regional Science, Vol. 55 No.2.pp.313333.
Wang, J and Zheng, X. 2013. Industrial agglomeration: Asymmetry of regions and trade costs. Review of Urban and Regional Developments Studies, Vol.25 No.2. pp. 61-78.
Wang, J and Zheng, X. 2013. Agglomeration and dispersion of the gate region and hinterland, Ritsumeikan Economic Review, Vol. 62 No.1.pp.39-60.

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 2 Review of New Economic Geography.- 3 Industrial Agglomeration: A Simulation Model.- 4 Industrial Dispersion: An Analytical Model.- 5 Home Market Effect: New Evidence from China.- 6 Conclusions.