The Core-Periphery Structure in the Yangtze River Delta: An Enterprise Linkage Perspective, 1978–2019

Table 5

Proportion of enterprise investment in cities in Jiangsu Province.

	1978 (%)	1992 (%)	2003 (%)	2009 (%)	2019 (%)
Nanjing	—	76.85	35.25	37.86	2.66
Wuxi	96.73	2.24	5.05	11.04	1.13
Xuzhou	—	1.06	1.81	1.88	0.32
Changzhou	—	1.50	4.25	3.69	0.68
Suzhou	3.27	16.36	44.55	27.58	3.91
Nantong	—	0.64	1.21	7.74	89.20
Lianyungang	—	—	0.46	1.50	0.18
Huai’an	—	0.05	1.01	0.83	0.14
Yancheng	—	0.00	0.47	1.70	0.44
Yangzhou	—	0.85	4.39	2.47	0.34
Zhenjiang	—	0.40	0.87	1.92	0.56
Taizhou	—	0.04	0.59	1.50	0.33
Suqian	—	—	0.10	0.30	0.11