1st Edition

Investment and Employment Opportunities in China

By Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest, Tao Lixin Copyright 2015
    500 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    500 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Presenting the most recent statistical data, Investment and Employment Opportunities in China provides first-of-its-kind coverage of the regional economic, industrial, investment, and employment structures in China. After establishing the theoretical foundation, the rest of the book utilizes the model and the methodology presented by the authors to analyze the various investment and employment structures within China.

    Addressing the problem of strategic optimization of macroeconomic systems, the book illustrates the current state of investment and employment opportunities in more than 30 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions within China. It explores the current direction of relevant structural adjustments, orders, and intensities.

    The book employs the concept of comparative earnings and relevant models and addresses the problem of strategic optimization of a macroeconomic system, involving economic structures such as regions, industries, sectors, investments, employment, and distributions. A must-read for anyone considering investing in or seeking employment in China, it supplies proven theorems, methods, and concrete suggestions for navigating the various economic structures within China.

    Although the book provides suggestions on optimizing economic structures in China, the theories presented are general and can be used to investigate the investment and employment climate of other countries and regions. Outlining the basic conditions of imbalances in China’s regional economic and industrial structures, the guidelines presented in this volume will help you make more informed decisions regarding international investment and employment opportunities around the world.

    THEORETICAL FOUNDATION

    Criteria for Discovering Imbalances in Macroeconomic System Structures
    Systems Science and the Systemic Yoyo Model
         What is Systems Science?
         Development History of Systems Science
         Formation of Systemic Thoughts—The Elementary Stage
         Quantitative Systems Science Developed for Applications
         Construction of a Comprehensive Systems Science
         The Systemic Yoyo Model
              Experiment #1: Feel the Vibe
              Experiment #2: She Does Not Like Me!
    A New Understanding of "Poverty Emerges from Surplus"
         Criterion for Finding Structural Imbalances in Economic Systems
         Criteria for Optimizing Structures of Macroeconomic Systems
         Strategic Optimization of Structures of Macroeconomic Systems

    REGIONS AND INDUSTRIES IN EAST, CENTRAL, AND WEST CHINA

    Investment and Employment in East, Central, and West China
    Regions of East, Central, and West China
         Introduction
         Current State of the Regional Economies of East, Central, and West China
         The Main Results of this Section
         Achievements and Lessons of the Regional Economic Development
         Directions, Focuses, and Measures for Strategic Optimization
    Economic Sectors of China
         Current State of Investment and Employment and Strategic Optimization
         Shifts of Capital and Rural Labors: Keys of Optimization of Sectorial Structure

    East China: The Optimal Area
    Regional Industries and Economic Sectors of the East
         Current State of the Regional Economic Structure of East China
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in East China
    Shanghai
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Shanghai
         Investment and Employment in Shanghai’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Guangdong Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Guangdong
          Investment and Employment in Guangdong’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Tianjin
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Tianjin
         Investment and Employment in Tianjin’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Beijing
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Beijing
         Investment and Employment in Beijing’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Shandong Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Shandong
         Investment and Employment in Shandong’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    The Hebei Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Hebei
         Investment and Employment in Hebei’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Zhejiang Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Zhejiang
         Investment and Employment in Zhejiang’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Fujian Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Fujian
         Investment and Employment in Fujian’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Hainan Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Hainan
         Investment and Employment in Hainan’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Jiangsu Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Jiangsu
         Investment and Employment in Jiangsu’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Liaoning Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Liaoning
         Investment and Employment in Liaoning’s Economic Sectors and Industries

    Central China: A General Area
    Industries and Economic Sectors of the Central Plane
         Current State of the Regional Economic Structure of Central China
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in Central China
    Henan Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Henan
         Investment and Employment in Henan’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Shanxi Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Shanxi
         Investment and Employment in Shanxi’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Hunan Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Hunan
         Investment and Employment in Hunan’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Inner Mongolia
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Inner Mongolia
         Investment and Employment in Inner Mongolia’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Heilongjiang Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Heilongjiang
         Investment and Employment in Heilongjiang’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Jilin Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Jilin
         Investment and Employment in Jilin’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Hubei Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Hubei
         Investment and Employment in Hubei’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Guangxi Autonomous Region
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Guangxi
          Investment and Employment in Guangxi’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Anhui Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Anhui
         Investment and Employment in Anhui’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Jiangxi Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Jiangxi
         Investment and Employment in Jiangxi’s Economic Sectors and Industries

    West China—The Most Difficult Area
    Regional Industries and Economic of the Most Difficult Area
         Current State of the Regional Economic Structure of West China
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in West China
    Xinjiang Autonomous Region
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Xinjiang
         Investment and Employment in Xinjiang’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Shaanxi Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Shaanxi
         Investment and Employment in Shaanxi’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Sichuan Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Sichuan
         Investment and Employment in Sichuan’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Guizhou Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Guizhou
         Investment and Employment in Guizhou’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Qinghai Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Qinghai
         Investment and Employment in Qinghai’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Gansu Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Gansu
         Investment and Employment in Gansu’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Ningxia Autonomous Region
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Ningxia
         Investment and Employment in Ningxia’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Chongqing City
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Chongqing
         Investment and Employment in Chongqing’s Economic Sectors and Industries
    Yunnan Province
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Yunnan
    Tibet Autonomous Region
         Current State of Investment and Employment Structures of Tibet
         Investment and Employment in Tibet’s Economic Sectors and Industries

    TRADITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE AREAS AND MODERN SPECIAL ZONES

    Regions and Industries in the Six Administrative Areas
    Investment and Employment in the Six Administrative Areas
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the Six Areas
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the Six Administrative Areas
    The South Administrative Area
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the South Area
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the South Area
    The North Administrative Area
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the North Area
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the North Area
    The East Administrative Area
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the East Area
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the East Area
    The Northeast Administrative Area
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the Northeast Area
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the Northeast Area
    The Northwest Administrative Area
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the Northwest Area
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the Northwest Area
    The Southwest Administrative Area
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the Southwest Area
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the Southwest Area

    Regions in the Three Special Areas of Modern China
    The Special Economic Areas
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the Special Economic Areas
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the Special Economic Areas
    The Greater Pearl River Delta Region: The Optimal Area
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the Greater Pearl River Delta Region
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the Greater Pearl River Delta Region
    Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone: A Suboptimal Area
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone
    Bohai Economic Rim: A Relatively Promising Area
         Current Regional Economic Structures of the Bohai Economic Rim
         Investment and Employment Opportunities in the Bohai Economic Rim

    UPDATES

    Updates with 2012 Statistics
    Opportunities in East, Central, and West China
    The East Region
    The Central Plane
    The West Region
    The Six Administrative Areas
    The Three Special Economic Areas

    Afterword

    References

    Index

    Biography

    Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest, also known as Yi Lin, holds all his educational degrees (BS, MS, and PhD) in pure mathematics, respectively, from Northwestern University (China) and Auburn University (USA) and had one year postdoctoral experience in statistics at Carnegie Mellon University (USA). Currently, he is a guest or specially appointed professor in economics, finance, systems science, and mathematics at several major universities in China, including Huazhong University of Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a tenured professor of mathematics at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (Slippery Rock campus). Since 1993, he has been serving as the president of the International Institute for General Systems Studies, Inc. Along with various professional endeavors he organized, Dr. Forrest has had the honor to mobilize scholars from over 80 countries representing more than 50 different scientific disciplines.

    Over the years, Professor Forrest has and had served on the editorial boards of 11 professional journals, including Kybernetes: The International Journal of Systems, Cybernetics and Management Science, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, International Journal of General Systems, and Advances in Systems Science and Applications. Also, he is the editor-in-chief of two book series, one of which is titled Systems Evaluation, Prediction and Decision-Making, published by CRC Press (New York, USA), an imprint of Taylor & Francis since 2008, and the other one titled Communications in Cybernetics, Systems Science and Engineering, published by CRC Press (Balkema, the Netherlands), an imprint of Taylor & Francis since 2011.

    Some of Dr. Forrest’s research was funded by the United Nations, the State of Pennsylvania, the National Science Foundation of China, and the German National Research Center for Information Architecture and Software Technology.

    Professor Forrest’s professional career started in 1984 when his first paper was published. His research interests are mainly in the area of systems research and applications in a wide-ranging number of disciplines of the traditional science, such as mathematical modeling, foundations of mathematics, data analysis, theory and methods of predictions of disastrous natural events, economics and finance, management science, philosophy of science, and so on. By the end of 2012, he had published over 300 research papers and over 40 monographs and edited special topic volumes by such prestigious publishers as Springer, Wiley, World Scientific, Kluwer Academic (now part of Springer), Academic Press (now part of Springer), and others. Throughout his career, Dr. Jeffrey Forrest’s scientific achievements have been recognized by various professional organizations and academic publishers. In 2001, he was inducted into the honorary fellowship of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics.

    Lixin Tao
    , a retired professor from Jiangxi University of Finance, was born on November 10, 1944. He received his undergraduate education as a mathematics major from Jiangxi University. Currently, he is on the economics faculty in Huashang School of Guangdong Business College. During his 37 years of university teaching, he has taught 26 different courses in diverse areas such as mathematics, systems science, economics, international trade, management, business studies, and statistics. Currently, Professor Tao has completed over 80 research projects, published over 5,000,000 words of papers in major scholarly journals and monographs covering many scientific disciplines, including econometrics, economics of technology, optimized management, statistical measurement, international trade, law, and so on.