The Regional Differences and Dynamic Evolution of the High-Quality Development of Import in China
High-quality development of import is inevitable for China on its way of seeking continuous opening-up in the new era,it is also a strategic decision to deal with the major changes unfold and unseen in a century.Based on the four perspectives of import openness,import welfare,import continuity and import competition,this paper constructs an evaluation index system of China's high-quality development of import level,measures the level of 31 provinces for 22 years from 2001 to 2022,employing the entropy weight comprehensive evaluation method to analyze the overall and provincial level differences and dynamic evloution by adopting the Dagum Gini coefficient and kernel density estimation.The study finds that:(1)the overall level of high-quality development of import in China is relatively low,but the eastern region is much higher than that of the whole country and the other three re-gions,displaying the"high in the eastern region,low in the central,western and northeastern regions"situation.(2)The overall regional difference shows a narrowing trend,with the inter-regional gap being the major source of the gap;(3)The overall level continues to improve,but shows an apparent skewed distribution and different degrees of polarization.
continuously expanding opening-uphigh quality development of importregional differencesdynam-ic evolution