Some Political-economic Characteristics of Internal Trade in Modern China

For a long period of time, the main prerequisite for an international trade was an uneven distribution of resources between various countries. However, nowadays differences in the efficiency of goods and technologies regulation are becoming increasingly important. Despite the fact, that inter-provincial trade regulations in China operate according to similar schemes, the responsibility for the production of specific product type in provinces is distinguished from the market patterns in other states. According to researchers Weibo, X., Whalley, J. and Shantong, L. (2015), the localization of interprovincial pathways implies aggregation and systematization of all regions into several areas with inclusive intra‐cluster market relationships. The proposed research aims to investigate the determinants of trading between provinces of China, paying particular attention to the regional industrial specialization unicity, based on an agglomeration of diversified manufactories in each specific part of the country. Within the topic, we will apply quantitative analysis of the statistics to the data collected by the National Bureau of Statistics (Beijing). Beside, we will use the macroeconomic information about regional industries published in the Statistical Yearbooks (2000-2019) and a database at а firm level (Industrial enterprise census data), in order to estimate a rising tendency of industrial agglomeration on the province level.