Urbanization and economic development data from Chen (2015) compiled from, National Bureau of Statistics of China http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/ndsj/

Format

A list object with 3 elements:

X

per capita GRP(yuan)

Y

Level of urbanization percent

M

Railway Distance (km) matrix of 29 Chinese regions

Source

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0126158

References

Chen, Y.G. (2012) On the four types of weight functions for spatial contiguity matrix. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 5(2):65-72

Chen, Y.G. (2013) New approaches for calculating Moran’s index of spatial autocorrelation. PLoS ONE 8(7):e68336

Chen, Y.G. (2015) A New Methodology of Spatial Cross-Correlation Analysis. PLoS One 10(5):e0126158. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126158