“Lock-in Effect” to Be Blamed for Regional Development Imbalances

CHEN Feixiang1( 陈飞翔 ), LI Kaiyan2( 黎开颜 ) and LIU Jia3( 刘佳 )
1CHEN Feixiang, Professor, Institute of Economics, Tongji University
2LI Kaiyan, Ph.D, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University
3LIU Jia, Ph.D, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University

Editorial note:China’s regional development has long remained in disparity. Despite various discussions on the causes of this disparity, it is not common to take a look at the “lock-in effect” as being one of the root causes. Based on some statistics, the authors find that the existence of the lock-in effect” should be blamed for the disparity between east, central and west China, and that the reform and opening up since 1978 has escalated this effect.

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