| Since the open door policy has been carried out, China has achieved great performance in GDP growth and raising people living standard, on the other hand, there are distinct economic differences among regions. Especially, the disparity between East and West regions and between urban and rural has the tendency which will further enlarge. Thus, reducing the region disparity and realizing the coordinated and integrative development has become the realistic duty in China, and China government is promoting a series of regional economic policies: Western Exploitation Policy, Development Policy of the Northeast Old Industry Base, financial transfer payment, and so on. And these policies got a certain amount of good result. Nevertheless, the disparity between East and West regions and between urban and rural has not reduced. Japan also has implemented a series of regional economic policies, and got a certain amount of good result. At the same time, Japan's regional economic policies have caused some serious matters, such as a tremendous budget deficit, a stagnation of developing regions and agriculture, grave pollution problems, and so on. And, of late years, Japan's economic disparity among regions is expanding again. A lot of economic index indicates Japan's economic disparities have already been large than that of many countries in Europe. On the other hand, there are a lot of differences between China and Japan. However, there exist similarities between the two countries. For example, both have centralization of administrative power; both have a large population but lack abundant farmland; both have a large imbalance of population distribution, and so on. Therefore, it's of great realistic meanings to make a comparative study on regional economic policies in China and Japan.This thesis comprehensively discusses regional economic policies in China and Japan using a statistical method. Firstly, it makes an analysis on regional economic policy-related theory and describes the trend of China and Japan's economic differences among regions. Finally, it makes a study on regional economic policies in China and Japan. This paper mainly discusses China and Japan's migration, financial distribution and national land development-related regional economic policies and the effects of these policies.Main conclusions of this thesis are the following:Firstly, internal migrations in China and Japan have occurred on a very large scale and have upgraded industrial structure. Meanwhile, up-grading speed of industrial structure in Japan is faster than that in China. This difference between both countries is related to education policies in two countries. China Central government's expenditure for education hasn't been enough yet. It is need to improve the system in education expenditure between Central government and Local government. On the other hand, Japanese experience means that migration is both helpful and harmful to coordinated development. China government should take precautions against stagnation of agricultural economy and regional economy caused by outflow of population.Secondly, China and Japan have implemented financial transfer payment from Central government to Regional government, and both transfer payments have reduced the disparity of financial power among regional governments. However, Japanese local-allocation tax is relatively efficacious in reducing the gap of financial power among regional governments. At present, it is need to raise the efficacy of financial transfer payment in China.Thirdly, China and Japan have executed development policies for their developing regions, and have ensured the implementation of these policies through channels of finance, taxation system, and so on. Meanwhile, there is relatively large disparity in the scale of public investment in China and Japan. This thesis needs to study furthermore on the optimum scale of public investment in two countries, however it is need to increase public investment for improving a basal condition of developing regions in China. |
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