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The Coupling and Coordinated Development of Intellectual Property and High-Quality Economy: Using China’s 30 Provinces as an Example

Table 4

Intergroup Gini coefficients of eight economic regions.

North coastEast coastSouthern coastMiddle reaches of Yellow RiverMiddle reaches of Yangtze RiverSouthwest regionNorthwest region

Northeast region0.269 (0.255)0.375 (0.302)0.303 (0.228)0.213 (0.124)0.161 (0.126)0.118 (0.126)0.358 (0.370)
North coast0.145 (0.142)0.239 (0.210)0.278 (0.261)0.146 (0.223)0.288 (0.304)0.572 (0.550)
East coast0.242 (0.199)0.359 (0.309)0.228 (0.255)0.389 (0.367)0.646 (0.604)
Southern coast0.324 (0.226)0.233 (0.196)0.317 (0.260)0.546 (0.508)
Middle reaches of Yellow River0.203 (0.110)0.220 (0.111)0.386 (0.363)
Middle reaches of Yangtze River0.186 (0.149)0.490 (0.412)
Southwest region0.343 (0.305)

Note. Due to space limitations, this paper only gives the calculation results of the Gini coefficient between the eight economic regions in 2013 (in brackets) and 2020.