Productivity distribution is a concept which describes how factors of production, production activities, and producing organizations are all allocated in a different area for a particular purpose. China boasts a vast territory and the vastness also entails enormous differences in natural endowments between regions. China's industrial development is troubled by mismatches and spatial equilibrium, and the nation's productivity is heavily tilted toward the eastern coastal area. With these issues in mind, this series collects the voices of leading experts and scholars in the field to give an authoritative account of the principles and models of productivity optimization. By drawing on extensive official statistics over the research period 1997 to 2007, this series reviews the changes in the distribution of China's productivity from the perspectives of three economic sectors and four major economic regions in the hopes of pointing out the solutions to the above problems. An elaborate blueprint is devised at the closing for geographically plotting China's productivity in the 21st century based on the goals, visions, and frameworks of optimal productivity distribution, and the functional and strategic positioning of urban-industrial growth poles.
