Grey relational analysis on the land-sea economy in China
Abstract
Purpose
On the basis of the time series of the land area economy and marine economy data during 1996-2015, the authors study the relationship between land area economy and marine economy, and divides the relational schema of the land-sea economy by doing causality test of land-sea economy, grey correlation degree analysis and relational schema analysis of the land-sea economy in coastal provinces and cities. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses methods such as Granger causality test and grey correlation degree analysis to preliminarily demonstrate the relationship of land-sea economy.
Findings
With Granger causality test, we can draw that there is a causal relationship between the land area economy and marine economy. Further with the relational schema analysis, we can draw that the relationship between marine economy and land economy in 11 coastal provinces and cities can be summed up into four kinds of patterns such as land-sea weak type, land-sea strong type, sea strong land weak type and land strong sea weak type.
Practical implications
For the government and related disaster management departments, when policies are made and relevant measures are taken in the process of planning economic layout of land-sea economy, similar policies or measures may be taken for the same type of provinces, in order to improve administrative efficiency.
Originality/value
The development and utilization between land economy and marine economy has a certain contradiction, which must be balanced to realize the balanced development of land economy and marine economy. Therefore, it is necessary to comprehensively assess the grey relational analysis of land-sea economy, in order to provide the basis for reasonable policies.
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Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the support from the National Social Science Fund Major Projects (No.14ZDB151), the National Social Science Fund Key Project (16AZD018), the Ministry of Education Philosophy and Social Sciences Development Report Breeding Project (No. 13JBGP005), Shandong Social Science Fund Project (16DJJJ06), general Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2015M580611), Qingdao Postdoctoral Application Research Project Funding (No. 251), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 201613006, 201564031).
Citation
Jin, X., Yin, K. and Li, X. (2017), "Grey relational analysis on the land-sea economy in China", Grey Systems: Theory and Application, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 31-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/GS-11-2016-0042
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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