Trend prediction and influencing factors of the production comparative advantage of China’s main apple-producing provinces
1) Temporally, APCA shows a trend of slow growth, ups and downs. Spatially, APCA shows a distribution pattern of "west high, east low". 2) APCA mainly shifted sequentially between neighbouring ranks. Besides, the change of APCA had significant spatial spillover effect, and highly advantage provinces featured more prominent proactive spillovers. 3) There is significant heterogeneity among the influencing factors.
Authors
- Fuhong Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8652-1696)
- Wenping Ning (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6577-1412)
- Mei‐Ling Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2689-8720)
Institutions
- Shandong Agricultural University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2024-10-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311912
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Global Trade and Competitiveness
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.22
Funders
- National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences
- National Social Science Fund of China