There's an obvious gap between the coastal area and inland, the eastern and western China.

我国沿海与内地，东部地区与西部地区明显地存在着差距。

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Considering this, the author selected two counties from both eastern and western China as data source and managed to get 702 questionnaires.

有鉴于此，作者选取了中国东西部两个县级市作为数据来源，投放并收回了702份调查问卷。

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The first chapter is the start point of the whole thesis, and I will compare the dual economy with the difference between economies of eastern and western China.

第一章把二元经济与我国东西部经济差异比较，这是本论文的起点。

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They have done so partly because they see that rescuing Russia's economy requires close economic links to the West, but also because they are rightly nervous about the growing power of their great eastern neighbour, China, and want a western neighbour they can turn to for help if necessary.

ECONOMIST: Weathering the storm

For India, dealing with a radical Islam problem simultaneously on its eastern and western borders would add to the already daunting challenges it faces with an assertive China and an ongoing Maoist insurgency in large swathes of central and eastern India.

WSJ: Sadanand Dhume: Bangladesh on the Brink

Its cultural influences, its religious establishments, even its political mechanisms were a remarkable amalgam of Eastern and Western traditions carried here along trade routes from Greece, Persia, Syria, India and China.

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