Excessively Large Regional Gaps Are Too "Risky"

By Our Reporter. Professor Hu Angang, researcher of the National Situation Analysis Group [guoqing fenxi xiaozu] under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has recently written a paper for this publication. He maintains that China is one of the countries with the largest disparities in regional economic development and social development, and that a series of serious consequences may ensue if effective measures are not adopted in the forthcoming period to control the widening of the relative disparities and to gradually reduce them.