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Beijing
3.5
Jiangsu
1.8
Shanghai
5.0
Zhejiang
2.1
Guangdong
1.8
Ratio of Urban to
Rural Incomes
1.0
5.0
Source:
Arita et al. 2011.
Figure 8.4
China's urban to rural income differences
that, by 2004, the largest city-regions in China exhibited the highest per
capita incomes, with the ratio of provincial per capita GDP to national
per capita GDP being highest for Shanghai (5.0), Beijing (3.5), and Tianjin
(2.7). The next highest ratio areas were the regions of Zhejiang (2.1) and
