Preliminary and Incomplete Draft Economic Geography and Regional Growth in China Sylvie Demurger Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Developpement International Universite d'Auvergne s.demurger@u-clermont1.fr Jeffrey D. Sachs Center for International Development Harvard University jeffrey-sachs@harvard.edu Wing Thye Woo Economics Department University of California, Davis wtwoo@ucdavis.edu Shuming Bao China Data Center University of Michigan sbao@umich.edu Gene Chang Economics Department University of Toledo gchang3@uoft02.utoledo.edu Andrew Mellinger Center for International Development Harvard University andrew_mellinger@harvard.edu April 24, 2001 Paper prepared for the inaugural meeting of the Asian Economic Panel held 26-27 April, 2001 at the Sheraton Commander Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts.