Fig. 9

The layout of the full inter-city IO table by firm ownership for the Greater China area for one year. For simplicity, it only shows one municipality and one province as an illustration. The final table have four municipalities, of which Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai are regarded as city-level regions, and Chongqing is separated into two regions: urban area and rural area, 335 prefectural cities in 27 provinces, and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, totally 343 regions.