Canfei He
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Canfei He |
| GIVEN NAMES | Canfei |
| FAMILY NAME | He |
| SIGNATURE | HE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peking University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5170-3599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 99 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 548 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 99 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Natural Hazards Interrupt Regional Path Creation: Evidence from Seismic Events in China
How to adapt urban economies and industrial development to natural hazards is a key focus of sustainable development goals. Existing research predominantly identifies the impacts of natural hazards and disasters at the aggregate economic level, leaving scope for analysis from an economic structural perspective. Taking seismic events in China’s mainland as an example, we followed the vein of evolutionary economic geography, and examined the impact…
Relatedness, economic complexity, and manufacturing investment: Evidence from Chinese cities
Beyond the digital panacea: How the digital economy affects local capabilities during industry entry in peripheral regions
Divergent Paths: Unpacking the role of skill-biased and routine-biased technological change on urban income inequality in China
Asia in the transforming global economy
Cross-industry adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies within cities: Evidence from industrial robots in China
Who Gains, Who Suffers? The impact of industrial transfer on carbon emission intensity in Chinese cities
Artificial intelligence industry development fortifies regional economic resilience: Evidence from Chinese cities
Chasing the sun: How does policy-induced local demand promote the spatio-temporal evolution of China’s solar photovoltaic industry
Public procurement, institutional distance and cross-regional subsidiary location choice
Policy interactions make achieving carbon neutrality in China more challenging
Mitigation policies interactions delay the achievement of carbon neutrality in China
Who you are versus where you are: Revealing the importance of determinants of within-city income inequality in China through an interpretable machine learning approach
More than geography: Towards a network perspective of regional economic resilience in China
Will product relatedness make regional economy more complex? An empirical study based on China
Following state-owned enterprises: The location strategies of Chinese private multinationals
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit: Pandemics, cognitive path dependence and regional economic resilience in China
Reshaping Migrant-Native Health Disparities: Evidence from the hukou reform in China
Who knows the future? Towards an expectation-oriented regional industrial evolution
Evolutionary economic geography has a strong explanatory power for how regional industries emerge and is therefore particularly important in today’s context of global industrial competition. In recent years, economic geographers have proposed that the role of expectations in industrial evolution should be given as much weight as historical routines. Following this vein, we formulate a conceptual framework and propose that historical experience an…
Reducing administrative barriers: Evidence from China's county-to-district reform on export product quality
Market relatedness and local export dynamics: Evidence from China
The role of Industry-University-Research collaboration in regional technological diversification: An empirical study on the pharmaceutical industry in China
Regional fiscal disparities in Chinese cities: Revenue-expenditure perspective
What Attracts Green: Value Differentiation of Environmental Industry and Coagglomeration with Pollution-Intensive Industries in China
Scholars have spent decades studying how environmental (“green”) industry can promote sustainability. Few studies, however, have discussed corporate dynamics within green industry and their spatial interactions with other manufacturing and service industries. Drawing on the theoretical perspective of industrial value chain differentiation, this study unpacks the spatiotemporal dynamics of environmental enterprises by various types in China. We us…
Who died, who survived? Covid-19 epidemic, industrial dynamics and urban economic resilience
Globalization, Institutional Change, and Industrial Location: Economic Transition and Industrial Concentration in China
He C., Wei Y. D. and Xie X. Globalization, institutional change, and industrial location: economic transition and industrial concentration in China, Regional Studies. Marketization and globalization in China may stimulate industrial clustering, while decentralization may lead to protectionism and industrial dispersion. This paper examines industrial distribution in China during 1980-2003. While Chinese industries have been increasingly concentrat…
Fiscal decentralization, political centralization, and land urbanization in China
This study investigates the driving forces of land urbanization in China. Drawing upon insights from the institutional perspective, this study argues that fiscal decentralization tightens local budget constraints, stimulating local governments to urbanize land to relieve fiscal distress. Political centralization triggers interregional competition among government officials for better economic performance, inspiring local governments to employ lan…
Land use change and economic growth in urban China: A structural equation analysis
Land use change is not only the consequence of economic growth but also its direct and indirect driver. Based on official land use change data from 2004 to 2008, this study found substantial land use changes in China, with considerable cultivated land conversion into urban, industrial and transportation purposes. Correlation analysis shows a strong association between land use change and absolute GDP expansion. Structural equation analysis indica…
Urban land expansion under economic transition in China: A multi-level modeling analysis
Economic transition, urbanization and population redistribution in China
Information costs, agglomeration economies and the location of foreign direct investment in China 1
He C. (2002) Information costs, agglomeration economies and the location of foreign direct investment in China, Reg. Studies 36, 1029–1036. Foreign investors suffer from adverse information asymmetry and face internal and external uncertainties in host economies. Better access to information and a variety of agglomeration economies could attenuate the disadvantages that foreign investors encounter. Statistical results strongly buttress the argume…
Location of foreign manufacturers in China: Agglomeration economies and country of origin effects
Geographical Concentration of Manufacturing Industries in China: The Importance of Spatial and Industrial Scales
Using the most recent data from the first economic census in China, a team of China-based and American economic geographers investigates the geographical concentration of manufacturing industries at the provincial and county levels by integrating proxy variables for natural advantages, agglomeration economies, and institutional changes (e.g., decentralization) associated with economic transition. The authors focus their investigation on manufactu…
Regional industrial evolution in China
How to jump further and catch up? Path-breaking in an uneven industry space
Recent studies have argued that regional diversification emerges as a path-dependent process. Developed countries that industrialize do so first from core areas in an uneven industry space and have more opportunities to jump to new related industries and sustain economic growth than do developing countries that jump from peripheral areas. Can developing countries/regions jump further to break these path-dependent trajectories? Based on China’s ex…
Production space and regional industrial evolution in China
Going green or going away: Environmental regulation, economic geography and firms’ strategies in China’s pollution-intensive industries
Geographical dynamics and industrial relocation: Spatial strategies of apparel firms in Ningbo, China
China’s emergence as a key exporter to the world has relied on low-wage and unskilled or semi-skilled labor and industrial clustering. The apparel industry exemplifies this export-oriented development model. Production and employment have become heavily concentrated in the coastal regions of east and southeast China. With growth in other sectors, prices, land costs, wages, and competitive pressures have all risen. This paper examines the diverse …
The Impact of Energy, Transport, and Trade on Air Pollution in China
A team of U.S.- and China-based geographers examines the relationship between China's economic development and its environment by modeling the effects of energy, transport, and trade on local air pollution emissions (sulfur dioxide and soot particulates) using the Environmental Kuznets model. Specifically, the latter model is investigated using spatial econometrics that take into account potential regional spillover effects from high-polluting ne…
Transport Impacts of Clustered Development in Beijing: Compact Development versus Overconcentration
This research aims to inform the compact city discussion with a case study of Beijing, where urban planning has emphasised clustered suburban development in the past half-century. It uses three decades of census data to describe Beijing’s spatial development trajectory and a household survey to assess its transport impacts. The research reveals an overconcentration of urban activities as a result of the featureless expansion of the central built-…
Gendering Interprovincial Migration in China
Migration is a gendered phenomenon, best understood as a series of relationships between socioeconomic factors and gender. Gender differences in migration efficiencies are investigated using the 1990 Census data in China. Results indicate that, although male migration rates are higher, female migration is more efficient in the sense that it contributes to greater population redistribution than male migration. Reflecting different economic and soc…
Entrepreneurship in China: The role of localisation and urbanisation economies
Why are some regions more entrepreneurial than others? This study explores the determinants of manufacturing entrepreneurship at the prefectural city level in China by highlighting the influence of localisation and urbanisation economies and the significance of technological relatedness and small firm clusters. Descriptive analysis has reported significant and increasing spatial variation of manufacturing entrepreneurship in China during 2001–200…
Local government intervention, firm–government connection, and industrial land expansion in China
This study investigates the driving forces of industrial land expansion under China's unique land use system in the context of economic transition with an explicit emphasis of the interactive relationship between local government and enterprises. Stemming from institutional insights in a transitional economy, this study develops a novel framework to integrate governmental intervention, firm–government connection, and economic transition to explai…
Rural banking in China: Geographically accessible but still financially excluded
Rural banking in China: geographically accessible but still financially excluded? Regional Studies. Based on the distribution patterns of rural credit cooperatives in about 2200 counties in 2009, this paper examines two aspects of financial exclusion in rural China after the restructuring of the banking industry. Despite the state's efforts to ensure financial inclusion in rural areas, poor farmers could be spatially included while still being de…
Empowering regional economy with a spectacular space: Mega-events, over-drafted capital and momentary growth in China’s metropolises
China’s leading city-region governments have actively pursued momentary economic growth and spectacular spatial development by hosting mega-events. The cases of the Beijing and Guangzhou show that mega-events have functioned as instruments (ab)used by municipal governments to expedite land sales, relocate old state-owned industries, and drive migrant workers and the urban underclass out of the city centre. Improved environmental quality was found…
A comparative study of land efficiency of electronics firms located within and outside development zones in Shanghai
Is Economic Transition Harmful to China’s Urban Environment? Evidence from Industrial Air Pollution in Chinese Cities
Economic transition has posed a serious challenge to environmental protection efforts in China. This study explores the environmental effects of the triple transition process of marketisation, globalisation and decentralisation using data on industrial SO 2 and soot emissions at the prefecture-city level. Panel data regression results find that marketisation and decentralisation have been harmful to the urban environment while economic globalisat…
Real Estate FDI in Chinese Cities: Local Market Conditions and Regional Institutions
Two China-based geographers test the importance of market conditions and local institutions in determining the locational pattern of foreign direct investment in real estate development (FDIRE), a major component of China's urban growth since the 1980s. Using data from 35 major Chinese cities, they trace the diffusion of FDIRE from a concentration in China's major coastal cities in the late 1990s to a more dispersed pattern including large inland…
Learning from yourself or learning from neighbours: Knowledge spillovers, institutional context and firm upgrading
Using a firm–product-level data set on China’s exports during the period 2000–11, we compare the impacts of intra- and inter-firm knowledge spillovers on the emergence of new, more sophisticated products at the firm level. Empirical results indicate that firm diversification is dependent on both intra- and inter-firm knowledge spillovers, though the effect of the former is much greater. More importantly, intra-firm knowledge spillovers are one ke…
Regional and sectoral differences in the spatial restructuring of Chinese manufacturing industries during the post-WTO period
Information costs, agglomeration economies and the location of foreign direct investment in China 1
He C. (2002) Information costs, agglomeration economies and the location of foreign direct investment in China, Reg. Studies 36, 1029–1036. Foreign investors suffer from adverse information asymmetry and face internal and external uncertainties in host economies. Better access to information and a variety of agglomeration economies could attenuate the disadvantages that foreign investors encounter. Statistical results strongly buttress the argume…
Entry Mode and Location of Foreign Manufacturing Enterprises in China
Foreign investors in China may choose between three modes of entry: equity joint ventures (EJVs), contractual joint ventures (CJVs), or wholly foreign owned enterprises (WFOEs). Those entry modes vary considerably in their legal forms, risk characteristics, resource commitments, and investment motivations. This paper evaluates and compares their locational patterns, and reveals similarities and differences in their locational behaviors. A regress…
Location of foreign manufacturers in China: Agglomeration economies and country of origin effects
Gendering Interprovincial Migration in China
Migration is a gendered phenomenon, best understood as a series of relationships between socioeconomic factors and gender. Gender differences in migration efficiencies are investigated using the 1990 Census data in China. Results indicate that, although male migration rates are higher, female migration is more efficient in the sense that it contributes to greater population redistribution than male migration. Reflecting different economic and soc…
The Impact of Energy, Transport, and Trade on Air Pollution in China
A team of U.S.- and China-based geographers examines the relationship between China's economic development and its environment by modeling the effects of energy, transport, and trade on local air pollution emissions (sulfur dioxide and soot particulates) using the Environmental Kuznets model. Specifically, the latter model is investigated using spatial econometrics that take into account potential regional spillover effects from high-polluting ne…
Energy Intensity in Light of China's Economic Transition
Two economic geographers examine the impacts of economic transition on the efficiency of energy use in China, the second-largest energy consumer in the world. Following a brief review of reform and deregulation in China's energy sector, they proceed to systematically test the relationship between economic transition (conceptualized as a triple process of marketization, decentralization, and globalization) and energy intensity using a panel data s…
Geographical Concentration of Manufacturing Industries in China: The Importance of Spatial and Industrial Scales
Using the most recent data from the first economic census in China, a team of China-based and American economic geographers investigates the geographical concentration of manufacturing industries at the provincial and county levels by integrating proxy variables for natural advantages, agglomeration economies, and institutional changes (e.g., decentralization) associated with economic transition. The authors focus their investigation on manufactu…
Foreign Banking in China: A Study of 279 Branch Units in 32 Cities
Two China-based geographers examine the gradual relaxation of restrictions on the activity of foreign banks in China as a prelude to a more focused investigation of the concentrated locational pattern of foreign banking in that country. The study, which embraces 32 Chinese cities, emphasizes the factors that have attracted foreign banks to particular cities and regions of China, including the existence of special banking opportunities, the so-cal…
Globalization, Institutional Change, and Industrial Location: Economic Transition and Industrial Concentration in China
He C., Wei Y. D. and Xie X. Globalization, institutional change, and industrial location: economic transition and industrial concentration in China, Regional Studies. Marketization and globalization in China may stimulate industrial clustering, while decentralization may lead to protectionism and industrial dispersion. This paper examines industrial distribution in China during 1980-2003. While Chinese industries have been increasingly concentrat…
Technological Progress, Structural Change and China’s Energy Efficiency
Real Estate FDI in Chinese Cities: Local Market Conditions and Regional Institutions
Two China-based geographers test the importance of market conditions and local institutions in determining the locational pattern of foreign direct investment in real estate development (FDIRE), a major component of China's urban growth since the 1980s. Using data from 35 major Chinese cities, they trace the diffusion of FDIRE from a concentration in China's major coastal cities in the late 1990s to a more dispersed pattern including large inland…
Regional and sectoral differences in the spatial restructuring of Chinese manufacturing industries during the post-WTO period
Economic Transition, Dynamic Externalities and City-industry Growth in China
Using data on two-digit manufacturing industries for prefecture-level cities during the period of 2000—05, this study found a significant non-linear relationship between dynamic externalities and city-industry growth. Industrial specialisation and local competition may help city-industry growth, but may harm growth when they exceed a certain level. Diversity helps industry growth, but only when it reaches a certain level. Liberalised, globalised …
The Locational Distribution of Foreign Banks in China: A Disaggregated Analysis
10.1080/00343401003614282
Spatial Organization of Fortune Global 500 Corporations in China: An Empirical Study of Multinationals from Japan, the United States, and European Union
Using data on investments in China from Fortune Global 500 multinational corporations (MNCs) based in Japan, the United States, and European Union over a three-decade period, the authors document the gradual expansion of MNCs in China both functionally and geographically. Statistical analysis suggests the existence of significant intra-firm clustering as a result of sequential investments, as well as country-of-origin agglomeration in the case of…
The Changing Structure of Energy Supply, Demand, and CO 2 Emissions in China
Because of its enormous population, rapid economic growth, and heavy reliance on coal, China passed the United States as the world's largest source of CO2 emissions in 2006. China is also becoming a major factor in the global oil market. This article analyzes China's energy production and consumption, with a focus on the energy and CO2 emissions per capita and per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) and the mix of energy sources and end uses. En…
Air Quality in Urban China
This study develops a framework for measuring the capability, pressure, and resistance to enforce environmental regulations and then applies this three-dimensional enforcement framework to air quality enforcement in urban China. Based on daily Air Pollution Index data published by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection during 2001-2011, the paper reports an overall improvement in urban air quality, but significant inter-city variations. Sta…
Does ownership matter for industrial agglomeration in China
Economic reform has successfully diversified the ownership structure of the Chinese economy. Different types of industrial enterprises may differ in their incentives and capabilities to reap from agglomeration benefits. Using plant level data from 2007, this study found that foreign enterprises are the most agglomerated while the domestically owned enterprises are spatially dispersed. In many industries, SOEs are the most dispersed and are less l…
Is Economic Transition Harmful to China’s Urban Environment? Evidence from Industrial Air Pollution in Chinese Cities
Economic transition has posed a serious challenge to environmental protection efforts in China. This study explores the environmental effects of the triple transition process of marketisation, globalisation and decentralisation using data on industrial SO 2 and soot emissions at the prefecture-city level. Panel data regression results find that marketisation and decentralisation have been harmful to the urban environment while economic globalisat…
Transport Impacts of Clustered Development in Beijing: Compact Development versus Overconcentration
This research aims to inform the compact city discussion with a case study of Beijing, where urban planning has emphasised clustered suburban development in the past half-century. It uses three decades of census data to describe Beijing’s spatial development trajectory and a household survey to assess its transport impacts. The research reveals an overconcentration of urban activities as a result of the featureless expansion of the central built-…
Geographical dynamics and industrial relocation: Spatial strategies of apparel firms in Ningbo, China
China’s emergence as a key exporter to the world has relied on low-wage and unskilled or semi-skilled labor and industrial clustering. The apparel industry exemplifies this export-oriented development model. Production and employment have become heavily concentrated in the coastal regions of east and southeast China. With growth in other sectors, prices, land costs, wages, and competitive pressures have all risen. This paper examines the diverse …
Global, regional and local: New firm formation and spatial restructuring in China’s apparel industry
The productivity puzzle of Chinese exporters: Perspectives of local protection and spillover effects
Land use change and economic growth in urban China: A structural equation analysis
Land use change is not only the consequence of economic growth but also its direct and indirect driver. Based on official land use change data from 2004 to 2008, this study found substantial land use changes in China, with considerable cultivated land conversion into urban, industrial and transportation purposes. Correlation analysis shows a strong association between land use change and absolute GDP expansion. Structural equation analysis indica…
Going green or going away: Environmental regulation, economic geography and firms’ strategies in China’s pollution-intensive industries
China (78 works) · Economics (76 works) · Economic geography (67 works) · Geography (64 works) · Business (54 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (47 works) · Political science (29 works) · Economic growth (26 works) · Industrial organization (24 works) · Global trade and economics (22 works)