Changes on FDI Regional Distribution in China

摘要

Distinguished with former literatures about foreign direct investment (FDI) regional convergence, this article introduces Theft Index to measure the so-called "(WCE) west-center-east" regional segmentation. There are some evidences which show that the traditional WCE segmentation didn't agree with the great changes in FDI but core-periphery pattern in recent years. Finally, the author gives some explanations on it.